Re: [PATCH] ascenario: Add scenario support to alsa-lib

[Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>]

On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 13:28 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

> Thinking out loud here but I'm wondering if it might make sense to
> replace the fixed list of controls that is there currently with
> something string based which can remap the control names if required.
> This would allow for (probably in the future) having the scenario pass
> back a list of controls without the API having to cater for each
> explicitly, which would allow for other things like hardware EQ controls
> to be passed on to the scenario users if desired - this is useful when
> you get things like systems with multiple EQs.
> 
> This would complicate the API, though, and so I think it would be better
> left as-is until we get to the point of having something like a plugin
> for rewriting the controls for applications so they don't need explicit
> knowledge of scenarios.  At that point it would only impact the scenario
> manager implementation which should deal with the complexity, at least
> externally.
> 
> I'm also thinking that it could be good to add functions to identify
> which PCMs on a card to use in the scenario, perhaps differentiated by
> quality or something.  The CPU may have PCMs to multiple devices or with
> differing capabilities and may want to switch between them depending on
> scenario (and possibly stream).

Agreed, these all sound like good features for the future and will
probably require some sponsorship to complete.

However, what we have atm is enough for most folks to get some working
audio kcontrol scenarios configured for their devices.

Liam