[alsa-devel] [PATCH v2 4/8] ASoC: topology: ABI - Add name element to snd_soc_tplg_stream

[Mark Brown]

On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 09:48:37AM +0000, Lin, Mengdong wrote:

Please fix your mailer to word wrap somewhere a bit nearer to 80
columns.

> > Yeah, I think we're kind of stuck with some degree of fairly tight coupling at
> > some point though - at some point we're going to need to work out which
> > link in the driver corresponds to which link in the firmware file.

> There is a 'version' field in struct snd_soc_tplg_hdr, which is a vendor-specific version number.
> The driver can check this field of a firmware topology and decide whether to support this firmware or not.

> Is this okay?

Well, they probably could check that but it's not really the point - we
don't want to break things at all here, we should try to avoid forcing
users to upgrade their userspace with their kernel since that makes life
harder for everyone.  
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