[alsa-devel] [RFC PATCH] ALSA: compress: Add SND_AUDIOCODEC_BESPOKE'

Vinod Koul vinod.koul at intel.com
Wed Oct 21 17:32:49 CEST 2015


On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 08:37:11PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 12:47:58PM -0500, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:

> > If you need to set parameters maybe we should also change the definition of
> > snd_enc_generic so that the reserved fields can be used for custom
> > parameters, or document that their use is permitted for this sort of ID.
> 
> It does mean the core can't grab them but quite what the core is
> supposed to usefully do for something like this is unclear to me so...

Well in case of compressed formats, core doesn't do anything, we just act as
a transport and shove down data and information.

I do like Pierre's idea of giving some meaning to formats and use some
reserved fields, but somehow I can't think of a clean solution for this!

-- 
~Vinod
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