[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: change 'HDMI/DP, pcm=' to 'HDMI/DP, pcm=' Jack control names

[Pierre-Louis Bossart]

On 10/25/19 9:04 AM, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> Dne 25. 10. 19 v 14:44 Kai Vehmanen napsal(a):
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Fri, 25 Oct 2019, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
>>
>>> There is an inconsistency in the names for the HDMI/DP Jack control
>>> names between some ASoC drivers and the HDA HDMI driver which
>>> introduced this naming in 2011.
>>
>> this will break a lot of existing devices that are using out-of-tree UCM
>> files, so I'm not sure this is worth the effort.
> 
> I don't agree. The out-of-tree UCMs should go to upstream anyway, except 
> that they are unusable for the standard users.

Isn't there a problem due to UCM extensions as well? I vaguely recall 
having to modify the Cherrytrail UCMs I took from the Chrome adhd 
repository since the parsing wouldn't work with the standard alsa-lib.