At Mon, 10 Sep 2012 19:43:33 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
Hi,
does anyone have concern if I push the current channel map API patches (in sound-unstable git tree topic/tlv-chmap branch) for linux-next, i.e. for inclusion to 3.7 kernel?
I don't worry too much about the kernel API. This can be refactored later. But the kernel ABI must retain, so we won't change in an incompatible way any longer once after it's merged to the upstream.
So, if anyone sees a flaw in the kernel ABI definition using control elements, let me know.
(But note that the API can't be perfect for all generic purposes. It's designed to be "good enough" for a big lack for multi-channel streaming. Of course, this doesn't discourage to use the API for any other purposes.)
FYI, as I haven't got any big NO-NO, now the topic branch for chmap is merged to for-next branch. I'm going to merge user-space side, alsa-lib and alsa-utils patches.
Takashi