On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 07:05:41AM -0500, Timur Tabi wrote: > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:49 AM, Mark Brown > > It occurs to me that we probably want something a bit more flexible > > here than just a numeric ID - most of the use cases for having more than > > one of the same device are for things like 5.1 or dual speaker amps for > > stereo where it'd be much more convenient to have the machine driver be > > able to add text based prefixes to the control names (eg, "Left" and > > "Right"). > How about instead of a string + id, we just have a string, and then > define a convention for various devices. For instance, the codec > could be "name@bus-addr", so my cs4270 driver would register something > like "cs4270@0-004f". Well, we already have a struct device for the actual chip so we can just dev_name() away. The problem is presenting the results to userspace in a useful fashion. _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
