[alsa-devel] [RFC] Alsa mixer over serial port

Mark Brown broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com
Thu Jul 2 15:32:21 CEST 2009


On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 03:27:43PM +0200, Janusz Krzysztofik wrote:

> I can see two ways of getting this working:
> 1) add a new line discipline that would take control over the serial 
> line and convert it to an alsa mixer,
> 2) create a low level driver that would replace standard serial stuff 
> completely (like snd-serial-u16550 does, for example).

> Please advise which one is better.

ASoC doesn't really care for itself - it just needs the upper layer
interface, how exactly the driver ineteracts with the device is not
important to ASoC.


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