On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, Christopher "Monty" Montgomery wrote:

> > but in the case of Jack, it was decided that it would be better to
> > have the stream stopped so that the xrun can be detected and reported
> > instead of having an unexplained (or worse, undetected) stutter.
> 
> I agree, it's important to report the error.  The problem is that in
> the current setup, the act of reporting the error also exacerbates it
> (making recovery potentially impossible).

Why do you say that?  In principle it's possible to report loss of sync 
quite easily.  uhci-hcd reports it by setting 
urb->iso_frame_desc[n].status to -EXDEV.  It won't release the bandwidth 
reservation when this happens.  I don't see any reason why ehci-hcd 
shouldn't behave the same way.

Alan Stern


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