ALSA: uapi: pcm: control the filling of the silence samples for drain
Introduce SNDRV_PCM_INFO_PERFECT_DRAIN and SNDRV_PCM_HW_PARAMS_NO_DRAIN_SILENCE flags to fully control the filling of the silence samples in the drain ioctl. Actually, the configurable silencing is going to be implemented in the user space [1], but drivers (hardware) may not require this operation. Those flags do the bidirectional setup for this operation: 1) driver may notify the presence of the perfect drain 2) user space may not require the filling of the silence samples to inhibit clicks If we decide to move this operation to the kernel space in future, the SNDRV_PCM_INFO_PERFECT_DRAIN flag may handle this situation without double "silence" processing (user + kernel space). The ALSA API should be universal, so forcing the behaviour (modifying of the ring buffer with any samples) for the drain operation is not ideal. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/alsa-devel/20230502115010.986325-1-perex@perex.cz/ [ fixed a typo in comment by tiwai ] Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230502115536.986900-1-perex@perex.czSigned-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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