[alsa-devel] BAT: why MAX_NUMBER_OF_CHANNELS and CHANNEL_MAX separate?

[Liam Girdwood]

On Tue, 2015-10-20 at 08:36 -0700, Caleb Crome wrote:
> Hi,
>    I'm starting to bring up BAT on my board to see if it's going to work for me.
> 
> I'm starting from https://github.com/hanlui/bat, is that the correct
> place to start from?

I think that's Han's old git repo. He has a dev branch here :-

https://github.com/01org/bat

and bat support is now also in alsa-utils git too.

> 
> I'm bringing up a 16 channel board, so need BAT to support more
> channels (currently it supports only 2).
> 
> bat/include/common.h has the following defines:
> 
> #define MAX_NUMBER_OF_CHANNELS          2
> #define CHANNEL_MAX                     2
> #define CHANNEL_MIN                     1
> 
> Is there any reason we need both MAX_NUMBER_OF_CHANNELS and
> CHANNEL_MAX?  They sure seem like they can be merged to me.
> 

Yeah, this looks like it's duplicated to me. Han ?

> Once I get the program up and running, I'll add the ramp test, and
> start thinking about the other tests we talked about.
> 

Ok, thanks !

Liam

> Thanks,
>  -Caleb