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authorVinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>2020-06-29 16:47:35 +0300
committerTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>2020-07-07 12:53:27 +0300
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ALSA: compress: document the compress audio state machine
So we had some discussions of the stream states, so I thought it is a good idea to document the state transitions, so add it documentation Reviewed-by: Charles Keepax <ckeepax@opensource.cirrus.com> Signed-off-by: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200629134737.105993-2-vkoul@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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@@ -151,6 +151,57 @@ Modifications include:
- Addition of encoding options when required (derived from OpenMAX IL)
- Addition of rateControlSupported (missing in OpenMAX AL)
+State Machine
+=============
+
+The compressed audio stream state machine is described below ::
+
+ +----------+
+ | |
+ | OPEN |
+ | |
+ +----------+
+ |
+ |
+ | compr_set_params()
+ |
+ v
+ compr_free() +----------+
+ +------------------------------------| |
+ | | SETUP |
+ | +-------------------------| |<-------------------------+
+ | | compr_write() +----------+ |
+ | | ^ |
+ | | | compr_drain_notify() |
+ | | | or |
+ | | | compr_stop() |
+ | | | |
+ | | +----------+ |
+ | | | | |
+ | | | DRAIN | |
+ | | | | |
+ | | +----------+ |
+ | | ^ |
+ | | | |
+ | | | compr_drain() |
+ | | | |
+ | v | |
+ | +----------+ +----------+ |
+ | | | compr_start() | | compr_stop() |
+ | | PREPARE |------------------->| RUNNING |--------------------------+
+ | | | | | |
+ | +----------+ +----------+ |
+ | | | ^ |
+ | |compr_free() | | |
+ | | compr_pause() | | compr_resume() |
+ | | | | |
+ | v v | |
+ | +----------+ +----------+ |
+ | | | | | compr_stop() |
+ +--->| FREE | | PAUSE |---------------------------+
+ | | | |
+ +----------+ +----------+
+
Gapless Playback
================