[alsa-devel] [PATCH v2 1/2] ASoC: core: Add API to use DMI name in sound card long name

[Liam Girdwood]

On Fri, 2017-01-06 at 14:07 +0800, Mengdong Lin wrote:
> 
> On 01/05/2017 05:47 AM, Liam Girdwood wrote:
> > On Wed, 2017-01-04 at 15:03 +0800, Mengdong Lin wrote:
> >>
> >> On 01/04/2017 04:09 AM, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
> 
> >> So we'll keep the manufacturer name.
> >>
> >> And let's put the "Product version" as well if available, Liam?
> >
> > Yes, lets keep the manufacturer name. I agree with Pierre in that we
> > dont want meaningless directories names.
> 
> Okay. Thanks for your confirmation!
> 
> > Creating a directory structures
> > like
> >
> > 1) manufacturer/product/board OR
> > 2) manufacturer/product OR
> > 3) manufacturer/board
> >
> > (2 or 3 if board or product is NULL)
> >
> > are fine by me and make finding the correct card simpler. You could even
> > replace the . with / in your longname to save the string conversion
> > later on.
> >
> > Liam
> 
> May we keep the flat directory structure for UCM files?

This may lead to really long file names and a very crowded master
directory.

> 
> For the same manufacturer, its DMI vendor name could change, e.g. "Intel 
> Inc." or "Intel Corporation". In addition, there may be changes caused 
> by using upper case or low case characters. Since we don't want to 
> maintain a mapping table and just do verbatim copy of DMI info, it's 
> hard to group all the products/boards of one manufacturer into one UCM 
> directory. So I feel it may be better to keep the simple flat directory 
> structure.

This wont matter if we have > 1 directory for Intel or Dell etc, as it's
obvious in the naming. No mapping needed.

Liam

> 
> Thanks
> Mengdong
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