[alsa-devel] [PATCH v2 4/8] ASoC: topology: ABI - Add name element to snd_soc_tplg_stream

[Koul, Vinod]

On Tue, 2015-10-06 at 11:34 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 08:55:58AM +0000, Lin, Mengdong wrote:
> 
> > > > OK, so this means that every DAI link name is going to become an ABI
> > > > too if there's a topology in there.  Not a problem but we'll need to
> > > > watch out for that on review...  I wonder if I can make some automated
> > > > checker thing.
> 
> > Do you mean we need to check if a DAI link name is already used, or if it's a
> > valid string?
> 
> No, I mean that if someone changes a name it'll invalidate topology
> files that reference that name.

Shouldn't this sort be checked in the alsa-lib while building the topology. It should
validate the names, graph and complete only when stuff is right.

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~Vinod