ALSA: pcm: Comment why read blocks when PCM is not running

This avoids bringing back the problem introduced by
62ba568f7aef ("ALSA: pcm: Return 0 when size <
start_threshold in capture") and fixed in 00a399cad1a0
("ALSA: pcm: Revert capture stream behavior change in
blocking mode"), which prevented the user from starting
capture from another thread.

Signed-off-by: Ricardo Biehl Pasquali <pasqualirb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/sound/core/pcm_lib.c b/sound/core/pcm_lib.c
index bcb06bd3d81d..345ab1ab2cac 100644
--- a/sound/core/pcm_lib.c
+++ b/sound/core/pcm_lib.c
@@ -2176,6 +2176,10 @@ snd_pcm_sframes_t __snd_pcm_lib_xfer(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream,
         if (runtime->status->state == SNDRV_PCM_STATE_RUNNING)
                 snd_pcm_update_hw_ptr(substream);
 
+        /*
+         * If size < start_threshold, wait indefinitely. Another
+         * thread may start capture
+         */
         if (!is_playback &&
             runtime->status->state == SNDRV_PCM_STATE_PREPARED &&
             size >= runtime->start_threshold) {