[alsa-devel] Fwd: USB MIDI Specification Update Proposal

[David Henningsson]

On 2014-07-21 10:17, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> David Henningsson wrote:
>> Forwarding this in case anyone is interested in influencing this
>> standard somehow
>
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Yup. Not something for a private person, but maybe something for the 
Linux Foundation?

>> to make sure they don't do anything problematic for us...?
>
> As long as they call the new version "1.1", it should be compatible.
>
>>>    * Additional Device Attributes
>>>    * Bandwidth Descriptors
>>>    * Add Interrupt Mode
>>>    * Transfer Non-MIDI Data / Meta Event
>>>    * Product Identification (Logos)
>>
>> Are we interested?
>
> Not really.  As far as I can see, none of that it something that the
> driver would really care about (except for interrupt mode, which is
> a Roland extension already supported by Linux).

Okay, thanks. I guess at some point in the future it could make sense to 
expose "Product Identification" in sysfs or so.

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