On Dec 1 2014 20:21, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
(While the driver name often is name of the driver, it is also used to select one of the configuration files in /usr/share/alsa/cards/. The FireWave and the LaCie speakers are often used for 'normal' 5.1 and 2.0 playback, and need different configurations, so I used different driver names for these.
For these two devices, the driver name should stay the same. All the other snd-oxfw device are (semi)pro devices where it does not really make sense to define devices like "surround51", so the driver name does not matter and might as well be "OXFW".)
Exactly. If userspace didn't have the configuration files, I were willing to use 'OXFW' as driver name for all of models.
As for the shortname, it is not an internal identifier but typically displayed to identify the device for the user. Something like "FWSpeakers" might be recognizable, but I'd prefer the old "FireWire Speakers".
In this case (the old name), 'Speakers' is an identical name such as 'hw:Speakers'. IMHO, this is a bit strange because it's usual, not identical.
Regards
Takashi Sakamoto o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp