Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH 5/6] compress: add the core file

A general note: it's not necessarily to split playback and capture devices. For example, rawmidi has a single device for full-duplex. In the case of PCM, we had to split them because of mmap. The mmap for the capture was supposed not to be read-only, some apps may want to add mark on the buffer.

Beats me why an app would want to write anything into the capture ring buffer. Do you have an example of this use case? Maybe there's a similar need for compressed data. Thanks! -Pierre