[alsa-devel] [PATCH 2/2] ALSA: Integrate control based jack reporting with core jack reporting

[Mark Brown]

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 08:20:50AM +0100, David Henningsson wrote:

Please delete irrelevant context from mails, it makes it much easier
to find what you've added,

> On 02/13/2012 06:40 PM, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> >Mark Brown wrote:

> >C. kctls contain unique names ([location] base [direction] [channel])
> >    optionally with TLVs

> I would vote for "C2", although I would probably prefer "[location]
> base [channel]" over "[location] base [direction] [channel]", as
> direction is superfluous given "base". This is also what the current
> implementation offers, and what I've based my PulseAudio patches on.

If we're going to do stuff like this Takashi's suggestion of splitting
direction from the channel seems like a really good idea, it both makes
things read naturallly and means applications are more likely to be able
to cope usefully with base types they've never heard of before.

> Also; as this graph exposing thing is unlikely to be implemented in
> all layers of the audio stack any time soon, maybe C2 is also the
> one that gives the most obvious matching between mixer kcontrols and
> jack kcontrols? I'd like to move in this direction; not only because
> we currently do not have the graph, but also because that even if we
> have it, userspace apps choosing not to implement it will have a
> good option.

The naming stuff gets really painful for anything that isn't a basic PC
audio card - the whole model used for the standard ALSA controls is very
much fixed to an extremely basic model of what the hardware might look
like.
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