[alsa-devel] snd-usb-audio for Radikal Technologies SAC-2K

[Raphaël Doursenaud]

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Hi,

I'm working on getting the usb part of this very nice control surface to
work with alsa. I sniffed the usb traffic of the windows driver then
browsed the snd-usb-audio source code for clues.

I managed to get it partially working using a modified QUIRK_MIDI_EMAGIC
since the protocols are fairly similar (at least the 0xF5 port switching
part).

Please find attached the patch I came up to.

I have a few problems and dark areas I hope you'll be able to light up a
little :

First, I more or less get the picture of what the code is doing but
there's one part I fiddled with that I don't understand fully. What are
the .out_cables and .in_cables bitmasks doing besides defining the
number of ports ?

Next, the input part seem to work flawlessly on all ports, but I have
what seems to be a buffer overflow on the device when outputting midi
data. Comparing the windows and linux usb traffic, something obvious
shows up : the windows driver seem to be waiting for the device's
acknowledgment after each sent byte before sending the next one while
the snd-usb-audio module sends a bunch of bytes at once that ends up
confusing the device _and_ module. How can I make it behave like the
windows driver ?

I have traffic and error logs available if needed.

Thanks.
- -- 
Raphaël Doursenaud
http://raphael.doursenaud.fr
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