Hi Mark, On Thursday 25 November 2010 14:53:51 Mark Brown wrote: > On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 03:28:16AM +0100, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > Link states must not be modified while streaming is in progress on a > > graph they belong or connect to. The entity locking API helps drivers > > enforcing that requirement. > > This is not desirable for embedded audio - for example, it is very > common to wish to switch from headphone to speaker and back mid > playback, or to move between headset, speakerphone and handset modes on > a phone. This is normally implemented by reconfiguring the output paths > at runtime without interrupting applications. Agreed. The locking should be made optional. I'll work on that. -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html