[PATCH] usb-audio: don't use empty packets at start of playback

Some widespread USB interface chips with adaptive iso endpoints hang
after receiving a series of empty packets when they expect data.  This
completely disables audio playback on those devices.  To avoid this, we
have to send packets containing silence (zero samples) instead.

ALSA bug: http://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=1585Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

sound/usb/usbaudio.c

@@ -480,22 +480,38 @@ static int retire_playback_sync_urb_hs(snd_usb_substream_t *subs,
 /*
  * Prepare urb for streaming before playback starts.
  *
- * We don't care about (or have) any data, so we just send a transfer delimiter.
+ * We don't yet have data, so we send a frame of silence.
  */
 static int prepare_startup_playback_urb(snd_usb_substream_t *subs,
 					snd_pcm_runtime_t *runtime,
 					struct urb *urb)
 {
-	unsigned int i;
+	unsigned int i, offs, counts;
 	snd_urb_ctx_t *ctx = urb->context;
+	int stride = runtime->frame_bits >> 3;
 
+	offs = 0;
 	urb->dev = ctx->subs->dev;
 	urb->number_of_packets = subs->packs_per_ms;
 	for (i = 0; i < subs->packs_per_ms; ++i) {
-		urb->iso_frame_desc[i].offset = 0;
-		urb->iso_frame_desc[i].length = 0;
+		/* calculate the size of a packet */
+		if (subs->fill_max)
+			counts = subs->maxframesize; /* fixed */
+		else {
+			subs->phase = (subs->phase & 0xffff)
+				+ (subs->freqm << subs->datainterval);
+			counts = subs->phase >> 16;
+			if (counts > subs->maxframesize)
+				counts = subs->maxframesize;
 		}
-	urb->transfer_buffer_length = 0;
+		urb->iso_frame_desc[i].offset = offs * stride;
+		urb->iso_frame_desc[i].length = counts * stride;
+		offs += counts;
+	}
+	urb->transfer_buffer_length = offs * stride;
+	memset(urb->transfer_buffer,
+	       subs->cur_audiofmt->format == SNDRV_PCM_FORMAT_U8 ? 0x80 : 0,
+	       offs * stride);
 	return 0;
 }