[alsa-devel] Question about DPCM FE vs BE

[Kuninori Morimoto]

Hi Pierre-Louis

Thank you for your feedback

> It is my understanding that the current code would not support a case
> where a FE is also a BE.
> 
> That said, do we want to preclude it? at some point we probably want
> to get rid of the FE/BE distinction and have 'domains' that can be
> chained. So it may not be a good thing to cast a restriction in
> stone. If at some point we need a list of upstream/downstream clients
> maybe we should keep this.

Yeah, "domains" is nice idea !!

But, before that, I think we need to cleanup soc-pcm.
I'm reading it, but it is too much complex, and too unreadable...
I want to cleanup it first. I believe it can help
the conversion (= FE/BE to domains).

Thank you for your help !!
Best regards
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Kuninori Morimoto