Re: Regarding alsa-utils commit "alsaucm: add alsa-ucm udev rules for PAZ00 (Toshiba AC100/Dynabook AZ)."

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On Thu, 2019-02-21 at 12:32 +0100, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> Dne 21. 02. 19 v 11:51 Tanu Kaskinen napsal(a):
> > Hi Jaroslav,
> > 
> > I'm updating alsa-utils in OpenEmbedded, and I noticed that there's a
> > new udev rules file, 89-alsa-ucm.rules. It seems to just initialize the
> > mixer settings for particular hardware (Toshiba AC100/Dynabook AZ), and
> > doing that in alsa-utils seems weird. Why does this hardware use a udev
> > rules file for initialization, unlike any other hardware?
> 
> I was asked to add those rules to the ALSA initialization, so it seems
> that we have users that does not use any other additional layer to
> control the hardware and they want to use the standard ALSA applications
> on top.
> 
> Note that there is not only mixer settings, but also the routing
> settings which most of standard mixer applications don't handle
> correctly, so it makes sense to do this settings at boot.
> 
> Anyway, I am open to any discussion to handle this properly. Nowadays,
> it seems that the use-case configurations are mandatory to bring the
> universal hardware drivers (mainly ASoC) to an useable state. We have
> already alsactl, it may be extended to set the default use case or
> restore the last one. We can also write special alsactl configs, but it
> makes sense to keep things only at the one place.

I think there's no "default verb" concept in UCM, so I guess that's the
main thing that needs to be added.

-- 
Tanu

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