On 2010-06-02 18:03, Daniel Chen wrote: > On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 11:02 AM, David Henningsson > <launchpad.web@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> This one just popped out when I read the source code - or is there a >> reason for parsing vendorid and subid without caring about the result? > > Technically it matters little if the codec vendor_id and subsystem_id > have valid values, because you can override them anyway. Codec address > is the vital one. In the individual case, maybe. However, assuming codec vendor and subsystem are correctly matched, a distro could make a long list of Codec SSID to model mappings, write down that in the patch file format, and supply that patch file. One could then add mappings as a minor distro update without having to recompile the kernel. // David _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel