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On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 02:51:12PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:

> The main name field isn't used by the parser.  So it may contain
> special letters like parentheses or such.

It might not be used by ALSA but it's used by some userspaces to
identify the card they're running on.