On Sun, 2009-02-22 at 12:56 +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 12:00:12PM +0000, Liam Girdwood wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-02-22 at 00:36 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > > > Now I'd of course prefer if the drivers > > > get fixed to use a single element naming scheme only. Is there any > > > chance to get that? And which one would that be? > > > This would likely be quite time consuming wrt to embedded drivers due to > > the complex audio hardware requirements of modern mobile phones. There > > are numerous hardware routes with different inputs and outputs and they > > are used in different combinations depending on use case. > > I'd worry that it'd also have a negative impact on usability. People > setting up scenarios and doing other device specific configuration > often find it difficult to relate the controls visible in ALSA to the > chip datasheet and keeping the names for the controls as close as > possible to the datasheet helps deal with that quite a bit. If a > standard naming were layered on top by something like the scenario > manager this wouldn't be such an issue since device specific names would > still be there and controls could be remapped dynamically depending on > use case. > Standard naming just got added to the scenario manager todo list ! It's really just an extension of the control aliasing we talked about earlier. Liam _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
