[pulseaudio-discuss] Changes to deal with modem PCMs

[Mark Brown]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 02:27:26PM +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote:

> While discussion on how we should deal with hardware with different
> requirements from standard desktop cases continues, I'd like to solve the
> problem of having modem PCMs that we don't want to auto-suspend in the near
> future. For this, I've attached a couple of patches that allow a sink or source
> to be flagged as "always running" which would cause suspend to be avoided if
> possible.

> Any objections?

If this is for fake streams held open by userspace we have a better in
kernel solution now - just hide the PCM from userspace entirely and
start it like anything else in the device.  Will that not suffice?