[alsa-devel] [PATCH 0/3] ALSA: firewire-digi00x: add another rawmidi character device for MIDI control ports

[Takashi Iwai]

On Fri, 30 Oct 2015 18:43:13 +0100,
Takashi Sakamoto wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Digi 002/003 family uses two ways of MIDI transmission; by isochronous
> packet streaming and by asynchronous transmission. The former is for physical
> MIDI ports and the latter is for physical controls on device surface.
> 
> Currently, all of these ports are handled by a set of operations in one ALSA
> rawmidi character device, thus:
> 
> $ amidi -l
> Dir Device    Name
> IO  hw:1,0,0  Digi 002Rack control
> IO  hw:1,0,1  Digi 002Rack MIDI 1
>  O  hw:1,0,2  Digi 002Rack MIDI 2
> 
> Although, it's preferable to have two rawmidi character devices because these
> transmission ways are completely different and it's better to assign each set
> of operations.
> 
> This patchset adds another rawmidi character device to ALSA digi00x driver.
> As a result, the driver register two rawmidi character device for each MIDI
> ports:
> 
> $ amidi -l
> Dir Device    Name
> IO  hw:1,0,0  Digi 002Rack MIDI 1
>  O  hw:1,0,1  Digi 002Rack MIDI 2
> IO  hw:1,1,0  Digi 002Rack control
> 
> I'm sorry to post this patchset in this time, but next release is a first
> version with digi00x driver and it better to includes this intrusive patchset
> before releasing.
> 
> Takashi Sakamoto (3):
>   ALSA: firewire-digi00x: rename identifiers of MIDI operation for
>     physical ports
>   ALSA: firewire-digi00x: add MIDI operations for MIDI control port
>   ALSA: firewire-digi00x: add another rawmidi character device for
>     MIDI control ports

Applied all three patches, thanks.


Takashi


> 
>  sound/firewire/digi00x/digi00x-midi.c | 197 ++++++++++++++++++++++------------
>  1 file changed, 130 insertions(+), 67 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.1.4
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