Hi, On Montag, 6. Januar 2020 09:33:35 CET Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Hi, > > > > We also see the need to add a max_streams value to this structure so as > > > to > > > explicitly provide a limit on the number of streams the guest can > > > create. > > > > What would be the advantage over just trying to create one and > > failing? The maximum number would be only meaningful for the special > > case when the streams are always only created by one user space > > process. Otherwise, if several processes do that, they are not aware > > of each other and the number could be higher than they can actually > > create, because other processes could have some streams created > > already. > > Also the number of streams might not be fixed but depend on stream > parameters, i.e. hardware can decode one hd or two sd streams ... > Ok, you are right. We'd better return an error from the device side. Regards, Dmitry. > cheers, > Gerd
