This patch extends the PCM rate plugin for allowing its converter
plugin to deal with multiple formats. Currently, the converter plugin
is allowed to take different formats only when convert callback is
defined. And for this way (so far only the standard linear rate
plugin does), all linear formats have to be handled, and it's
cumbersome.
OTOH, most other rate plugins are implemented with convert_s16
callback, which accepts only S16 format. This is often not ideal
because many converter engines can handle 32bit formats. Also, the
target format is often 32bit format, hence this would require
additional conversion even if the converter engine can output 32bit
natively.
In this patch, for addressing the problems above, the rate plugin API
is extended in the following way:
- The new get_supported_formats callback is added; this stores the bit
masks of the supported input and output formats, as well as the
behavior flags. Currently only linear formats are allowed.
- When the plugin accepts only the interleaved stream, set
SND_PCM_RATE_FLAG_INTERLEAVED flag bit. Otherwise the code has to
handle snd_pcm_channel_area at each call.
- When both input and output formats have to be identical, pass
SND_PCM_RATE_FLAG_SYNC_FORMATS flag bit.
- When the converter wants to process different formats, use convert
callback instead of convert_s16. You can put both in the ops for
compatibility, too.
The input and output formats are found in the info argument of init
callback.
- Now the PCM rate plugin core will skip the temporary buffer
allocation and conversions for pre- and post-process if not needed
(i.e. matching with the requested input or output format).
The rate plugin API version is bumped to 0x010003.