Re: alsa problems

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

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On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 16:21 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:

> Ah, that sounds OK, too.  The driver can return -ENOENT, so basically
> it looks same from the user-space as if there is no real device file.

Good point. I'm returning -ENODEV right now, but ENOENT might be
misleading, the open can also fail in the same way if the codec chips
behind the i2s bus aren't usable at the moment.

> OK, I'll pass you a patch later.
> I think, however, this won't go to 2.6.17 kernel since we have no
> caller yet.

No worries. I'll keep the current workaround, I'm not aiming for kernel
inclusion in the short term. Thus we can keep your patch on the queue
until my driver enters the queue :)

> A good point.  The handling of compressed formats is still under
> considration.  Any comments about preferred behavior are welcome.

Will think about it and send another mail.

johannes

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