[alsa-devel] hdspmixer broken for 96khz

[Tim Blechmann]

> I wonder what went wrong. If you like, feel free to further dig into
> this.
> 
> However, the current on-disk format is utterly stupid, it has no
> meta-information at all, it will break if the order of cards change.
> 
> The whole hdspmixer is a dead-end, even supporting more than one card in
> a single app complicates things like hell (I have an upcoming patch
> series. Took me 6hrs or so just to get switching back/forth between two
> cards right).

the hdspmixer is not perfect, but it more or less worked for years and it is 
used in `production' environments. so breaking the parts that are currently 
working is quite annoying for users.

> So the next thing I'd like to implement is to limit hdspmixer to a
> single card and then run a new instance on the second, third, 4th a.s.o.
> card. Like alsamixer -c 1: hdspmixer -c 1, maybe -c reflecting the ALSA
> card number as found in /proc/asound/cards.
> 
> Anyway, the whole codebase is subtle broken, and the best approach would
> be a rewrite from scratch. Maybe it makes sense to merge hdsp and hdspm,
> first. Comments welcome. ;)

rewriting the hdspmixer doesn't sound like a bad idea to me. reworking the 
sampling rate switching would be a great help as well: the hdsp is the only 
device i know, which requires an external program to switch the sampling rate. a 
few years ago i had a brief look at the driver, but this seemed to be a non-
trivial problem.

cheers, tim

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