Re: [PATCH 1/2] amidi: ignore not only Active Sensing but all System Real-Time messages

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On Mon, 11 Apr 2016, Clemens Ladisch wrote:

> >> Filtering out clock messages serves an actual need.  But I am not
> >> willing to add complexity for a problem that is, at the moment, nothing
> >> but a figment of our imaginations.
> >
> > My argument is really that currently amidi has an option for filtering out
> > active sensing, which has probably been added as it serves a useful
> > purpose in its own right. The patch replaces that filter with one that
> > filters out everything from F8 (clock) and up
> 
> I consider this change a bug fix; I just forgot about clock messages
> when I originally impemented the filter.

Fair enough, although regardless of the original intention, the current 
version is out there (although I honestly haven't checked how long the 
filtering option has been available, perhaps it's not that long), and it's 
not buggy in the sense that it does what the corresponding (long) option 
says it will do.

> > I think it would be better to keep the existing option, and add a new
> > one, rather than to essentially change the meaning of the existing
> > option.
> 
> That would be a new feature.

Yes.

/Ricard
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