[alsa-devel] Mono device definition

[Takashi Iwai]

At Tue, 20 Nov 2007 01:51:51 +0100,
Lennart Poettering wrote:
> 
> Five more things I am wondering about, though:
> 
> 1) Wouldn't it make sense to have a "mono:" device similar to the
>    other surround/front/rear devices? The single use case would be the
>    mono-only usb webcam I mentioned above.

Hm, I don't think it's so useful since "mono" channel itself is not so
common.  The usefulness of "front" or "rear" is that the definition is
relatively clear.  But "mono" has no clear definition what it should
be.

The addition of this new defintion would be easy, though...


Takashi