[alsa-devel] [PATCH v2 00/10] audio timestamping evolutions

[Takashi Iwai]

At Sun, 21 Dec 2014 14:14:42 +0100,
Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> 
> Dne 19.12.2014 v 22:17 Pierre-Louis Bossart napsal(a):
> > Thanks for the review Jaroslav
> > 
> >> 1) ext_info member is not required - the standard info field
> >>     has enough free bits
> > 
> > Well this was added at Takashi's request, the initial patches didn't 
> > rely on this extension...I can roll back those changes if this is the 
> > consensus.
> 
> Yes, every developer has it's own opinions.. I would just not to add
> next field until the all bits are not used.

This was what we thought at first.  But later on, I found that it's a
bit ugly.  Namely, assume you'll add more tstamp types to be
advertised in INFO bit, but we already add yet another irrelevant bit
beforehand.  Then the whole type bits will become sparse.

Since this is a (possibly) extensible bitmask, having it separately
would make sense.

Though, I have no strong opinion on this.  If you have a good counter
argument, I'll be your ears :)


thanks,

Takashi