Re: 2.6.36: Sound stop working

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Thu, 12 Aug 2010 23:01:04 +0200,
Jiri Slaby wrote:
> 
> On 08/12/2010 10:26 PM, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Thu, 12 Aug 2010 23:10:15 +0300,
> > Pekka Enberg wrote:
> >>
> >> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:00 PM, Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de> wrote:
> >>> My sound card stop to work since a few commits. I tried to bisect it and ended up with this:
> >>>
> >>> There are only 'skip'ped commits left to test.
> >>> The first bad commit could be any of:
> >>> 3bcf3860a4ff9bbc522820b4b765e65e4deceb3e
> >>> c1e5c954020e123d30b4abf4038ce501861bcf9f
> >>> We cannot bisect more!
> >>>
> >>> any ideas what to do now?
> >>
> >> Takashi, maybe this is related to Linus' problem?
> > 
> > Yeah, I guess so, since I couldn't see any obvious problem in sound/*.
> > 
> > PulseAudio uses inotify in udev-detection module, at least.
> > It's possible that inotify change may hit the sound in the end.
> 
> Probably I got into this problem yesterday. Found out that PA fails to
> open /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p _second_ time. It opens it, then closes, then
> opens it again and gets EBUSY. aplay is OK.

Yes, I can also confirm that it's broken on my machine in the same
way now :)  PA log shows that the succeeding open failed.

PA tries to do quick open/close of the same device to figure out which
configuration is available at start-up.  This implies that the
fs/notify commits touching the open/close stuff can be the culprit.


thanks,

Takashi