On 08/30/2013 09:28 AM, Tanu Kaskinen wrote: > On Fri, 2013-08-30 at 08:16 +0200, David Henningsson wrote: >> On 08/29/2013 04:36 PM, Tanu Kaskinen wrote: >>> Sometimes it would be nice to disable module-suspend-on-idle for >>> specific devices. For me the use case is to keep a HDMI sink running >>> all the time to avoid loss of audio when starting to play a stream to >>> the device (the HDMI receiver eats a bit from the beginning of the >>> stream when the device is opened). This is arguably a hacky solution >>> to the problem, but on the other hand, I think it's very sensible to >>> interpret negative timeout in the module-suspend-on-idle.timeout >>> property as disabling the suspending altogher. This is also how the >>> exit-idle-time configuration option behaves (negative value disables >>> automatic exiting). >> >> Didn't Arun have another solution for a similar problem? Like a sink >> ALWAYS_RUNNING flag or something. > > Yes, he did. That patch was not merged, and I don't know if Arun plans > to still work on it. > > Regardless of Arun's solution, I think it makes sense to support > negative value for the module-suspend-on-idle.timeout property to be > consistent with other timeout parameters. > Hmm, it looks like there already is a module-suspend-on-idle.timeout property and you're just improving its functionality. Then I would typically prefer this over a new sink flag. Even better if the module-suspend-on-idle.timeout was documented though... Arun, would this solve your problem as well? Would it be possible for the two of you to synchronise your efforts? -- David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd. https://launchpad.net/~diwic
