[alsa-devel] [RFC PATCH] ALSA: compress: Add SND_AUDIOCODEC_BESPOKE

[Mark Brown]

On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 12:47:58PM -0500, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:

> Since this is clearly an escape mechanism for a non-standard codec, maybe we
> should use an ID that's not in sequence, eg 0x00001000.

0xDEADBEEF.  Also the bikeshed should be purple :)

> If you need to set parameters maybe we should also change the definition of
> snd_enc_generic so that the reserved fields can be used for custom
> parameters, or document that their use is permitted for this sort of ID.

It does mean the core can't grab them but quite what the core is
supposed to usefully do for something like this is unclear to me so...
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