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

[Takashi Iwai]

At Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:36:00 +0000,
Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> On 18 Feb 2009, at 15:15, Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:
> 
> > At Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:39:14 +0000,
> > Mark Brown wrote:
> >>
> >> 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.
> >
> > Ah yes, but longname is still too ugly as an identifier, IMHO.
> > That's why I'm asking again.
> >
> > At each time it's shown in kernel messages, I wonder what is that at
> > all.  It's hard to decode as "Jack..." string appears at the very last
> > of the name.
> 
> Sorry, I wasn't clear - I agree with the proposed change.

OK, fixed now :)


thanks,

Takashi