Re: [alsa-devel] longname in sound/core/jack.c

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 02:40:09PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:

I'm not sure whether I've already asked it, but I find it ugly to refer to card->longname for the input device name in sound/core/jack.c.

Yes, it was discussed at the time. This was chosen because the input subsystems tends towards the verbose when giving names to devices.

Can it be changed to card->shortname, at least?

Obviously, it's just a display string. I think what happened is that when I checked this on some desktop systems I misread card->id as being card->shortname in the /proc/asound output. The former is far too cryptic to be idiomatic in the input subsystem.