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

[Jaroslav Kysela]

Dne 25. 10. 19 v 16:35 Pierre-Louis Bossart napsal(a):
> 
> 
> 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.

If they add something extra without the community agreement, it may break the 
alsa-lib UCM parser, of course. I meant UCM configs for the Linux users.

					Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <perex at perex.cz>
Linux Sound Maintainer; ALSA Project; Red Hat, Inc.