tree ed5a677157cf5bdd781c04e986813f112c6bf72c
parent adc8d31326c32a2a1e145ab80accbc3c6570b117
author John S. Gruber <JohnSGruber@gmail.com> 1261934398 -0500
committer Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> 1261999841 +0100

ALSA: usb-audio: relax urb data align. restriction HVR-950Q and HVR-850 only

Addressing audio quality problem.

In sound/usb/usbaudio.c, for the Hauppage HVR-950Q and HVR-850 only, change
retire_capture_urb to allow transfers on audio sub-slot boundaries rather
than audio slots boundaries.

With these devices the left and right channel samples can be split between
two different urbs. Throwing away extra channel samples causes a sound
quality problem for stereo streams as the left and right channels are
swapped repeatedly, perhaps many times per second.

Urbs unaligned on sub-slot boundaries are still truncated to the next
lowest stride (audio slot) to retain synchronization on samples even
though left/right channel synchronization may be lost in this case.

Detect the quirk using a case statement in snd_usb_audio_probe.

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/495745

Signed-off-by: John S. Gruber <JohnSGruber@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>