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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ASoC: Ensure we generate a card name
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:20:02 +0100
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On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 03:02:22PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> Mark Brown wrote:

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

> The card->name can contain special letters.  This has been so for over
> a decade, and won't be changed.  Why now need to change this?

I'm not suggesting that it should?  To be honest I'm quite surprised
that the alsa-lib code isn't able to cope with spaces in the driver
name in the first places, I'd rather just fix the specific characters it
doesn't like.