[alsa-devel] [PATCH 21/30] ALSA: oxfw: Change the way to name card

[Takashi Sakamoto]

On Nov 30 2013 17:31, Takashi Iwai wrote:
>>> So, this ends up with the identical strings for both driver and
>>> shortname?  This doesn't sound like an improvement.
>>
>> Basically, hard-coded strings can be replaced by strings read from
>> config-rom on the devices. My original intension of this commit is
>> following to this.
>>
>> But FWSpeakers/FireWave has long strings for vendor/model strings on
>> config-rom, therefore his commit can obsolete long name only.
>>
>> Actually this patch is a help for later patch:
>> [PATCH 26/30] ALSA: oxfw: Add support for Behringer/Mackie devices
>> http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2014-November/084818.html
> 
> But still it's not applied to LaCie and other that have device_info,
> no?  So they'll end up with the even shorter names than now.
>
> I'd be better to create a short_name from "Vendor Model" where
> driver_name can be a fallback of model name.

Any reasons?


Regards

Takashi Sakamoto
o-takashi at sakamocchi.jp