[alsa-devel] Master vs. Front/Rear/LFE/... elements

[Mark Brown]

On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 10:49:22AM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:

> IMO, the best would be a total rewrite of the current mixer API, as I
> mentioned some times.  Right now it's more complicated than needed,
> but not powerful enough to handle exceptional cases.

Indeed - for example, something that allowed audio routing to be
expressed in the mixing API would be a very big win for embedded systems
too.

> I know designing a generic and fully-working API is pretty difficult,
> though...

Certainly non-trivial :)