[alsa-devel] compress: adding support for hardware dependent params

[Pierre-Louis Bossart]

>
>   We have a requirement, where we need to set a number of hardware specific
> parameters for compressed offload use-cases, before starting a stream. As
> these parameters need to be set once for the entire session, we would
> like to explore the best way to set these additional parameters somewhere
> before calling trigger() function.

I think you need to provide more context here. The compressed API 
provides a fair amount of information on the parameters needed to handle 
the stream - maybe too much in most cases -, I don't really get the 
rationale for hardware-specific parameters needed specifically for 
compressed data that you wouldn't need for PCM.
I am also not clear on how we are going to agree on new hw_params that 
are hardware specific. Shouldn't this sort of requirement be handled 
through a control interface?