Hi all, ALSA in Linux kernel 3.16 or later supports some FireWire sound devices newly, approx 120 models. And it's nice that PulseAudio 6.0 may support multichannel profiles to them. I'm really appreciate David's work for it, thank you. But there's still an issue about card naming. For any FireWire devices, udev's database gives the name of IEEE 1394 Phy/Link chipset to ID_XXX_FROM_DATABASE. For example: $ udevadm info --path=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:0c:06.0/fw1/fw1.0/sound/card0 ... E: ID_BUS=firewire ... E: ID_MODEL=ImpactTwin E: ID_MODEL_FROM_DATABASE=TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) (Motherboard) ... E: ID_VENDOR=TC Electronic E: ID_VENDOR_FROM_DATABASE=Texas Instruments Then PulseAudio gives these names to the card because ID_XXX_FROM_DATABASE is prior to ID_VENDOR/ID_MODEL. $ pactl list cards Card #1 Name: alsa_card.firewire-0x0001660409c03252 Driver: module-alsa-card.c Owner Module: 6 Properties: alsa.card = "0" alsa.card_name = "Impact Twin" ... device.vendor.name = "Texas Instruments" device.product.name = "TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) (Motherboard)" The attached patch is for this issue just in PulseAudio side. This patch just adds some execution paths just for FireWire devices. I have another option, to work in udev (systemd), as usb subsystem does. http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/tree/src/udev/udev-builtin-usb_id.c#n214 But this work involves developers in FireWire subsystem, therefore will be an excess of my effort. It's my glad to get your comments about this issue. Regards Takashi Sakamoto -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 0001-udev-use-ID_MODEL-ID_VENDOR-to-give-friendly-name-fo.patch Type: text/x-diff Size: 3290 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20150110/4045ea2d/attachment.patch>
