[alsa-devel] [PATCH 2/2] ALSA: Integrate control based jack reporting with core jack reporting

[David Henningsson]

On 02/10/2012 04:50 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 02:08:52PM +0100, David Henningsson wrote:
>> On 02/10/2012 11:55 AM, Takashi Iwai wrote:
>>> David Henningsson wrote:
>
>>>> I guess it could be easier to parse if we avoid spaces in names,
>>> Exactly, it was the reason.
>> Given that the normal desktop user does not usually look at these values
>> these days, I'd say being parser friendly weighs heavier than being
>> "normal English".
> Not all the world is desktop.

The normal end user of the embedded system does not look at those values 
either.

>>> OTOH, we can take an optional directional suffix, i.e.
>>> "[location] base [direction] [channel]", too.  For example, base can
>>> be "Video" or "Line", and direction can be "Out" or "In".
>
>>> I'd like to hear rather comments from others.
>
>> I think both naming schemes are good, and I'm not too worried about them
>> being too verbose. If we run into names being longer than the string
>> length we could back off and drop the location, I guess.
>
> It's a complete pain for actually working with them and doing
> development - it renders badly in UIs (think about alsamixer for
> example, or people looking at things on 80 column terminals) and isn't
> friendly to people typing things in.

So your suggestion was, to avoid "Front Headphone" and "Rear Headphone" 
because the names were too long, and instead have "Headphone" and 
"Headphone,index=1" and have "Front" and "Rear" read out of a TLV?

That will be worse for everyone, both those doing work with them, 
looking in alsamixer, etc.

-- 
David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd.
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