Re: [linux-audio-dev] SoundBOX API revised and commented

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] SoundBOX API revised and commented
From: Abramo Bagnara (abramo_AT_alsa-project.org)
Date: Sat May 19 2001 - 19:54:32 EEST

Karl MacMillan wrote:
>
> >
> > /* Open wanted flows */
> > soundbox_flow_open
> >
>
> What are flows? Connections between components?

Connection to a port. A port may have many flow associated.

>
> > /* Prepare boxes for work */
> > soundbox_prepare
> >
> > while(!end) {
> > for each input {
> > soundbox_flow_wait
> > soundbox_flow_begin
> > }
> > for each output {
> > soundbox_flow_wait
> > soundbox_flow_begin
> > }
> > /* I assume that elaboration transfer directly data from
> > inputs to outputs */
> > elaborate
> > for each input
> > soundbox_flow_commit(output, ...)
> > for each output
> > soundbox_flow_commit(output, ...)
> > }
>
> What does commit do? I am sorry, but I still don't understand this api.

It's a way to communicate to soundbox that we have completed read/write.
Soundbox will make the appropriate actions. I've stolen this term from
ALSA (that in turn have stolen it from SQL jargon).

> Can you describe the components - possibly with comparison to components
> in the other apis described.

I don't understand what you mean with "components". In past we have
called "audio component" what I now call with a more poetic term
"soundbox". 

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