[alsa-devel] [PATCH] rawmidi.c Set a name for a newly allocated rawmidi substream

[Ralf Beck]

Am 07.05.2014 19:39, schrieb Clemens Ladisch:
> Ralf Beck wrote:
>> Rationale: Bitwig Studio (and possibly other rawmidi clients) 
>> enumerate the Midi I/Os by substream names. With the current rawmidi 
>> implementation, the name is an empty string and only the USB 
>> mididriver changes it to a meaningful value after allocation. 
> Many RawMIDI devices have only one substream, or multiple substreams 
> that are merged into one port. For these, separate substream names do 
> not make sense. 
Any having no substream name at all makes more sense?
>> This patch sets a default substream name of the form "somename x-y-z" 
> The ID string is not meant to be a name. 
Would it be acceptable, if i remove the ID string and only return x-y-z ?
Other than the alsa developers i would call creating rawmidi substreams, 
but not
assigning a name to them a bug.

Best regards,
Ralf