[alsa-devel] Shipping UCM configuration files in upstream alsa-lib

[Takashi Iwai]

At Mon, 30 Jul 2012 11:38:52 +0300,
Kaskinen Tanu wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> It seems that there are no UCM configuration files in the alsa-lib
> tarball (or am I not looking hard enough?). Has it been decided that
> alsa-lib should not ship with UCM configuration files, or is it just
> that nobody has so far submitted such files for inclusion?

I think it's the latter.

> I'm about to
> start learning about UCM by writing some configuration files for the
> Nokia N900, and I'd like to get those files eventually to upstream.
> 
> I think it makes sense to ship the UCM files in upstream, because that
> way when you port a new Linux distribution on a piece of hardware,
> there's a better chance for audio to "just work". And even if Mer (which
> I'm using) will be the only distribution that is going to be interested
> in the UCM files for N900, Mer can avoid maintaining any patches on top
> of alsa-lib if everything is in upstream.

Yeah, I find it'd be useful, too.


thanks,

Takashi