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

[Mark Brown]

On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 03:16:30PM +0000, Koul, Vinod wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-10-06 at 11:34 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

> > 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.

The problem isn't detecting the error, the point is that if someone
upgrades their kernel and someone changed the DAI link name then their
existing userspace will break.  We don't want that error to be there to
be detected in the first place.
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