Re: [PATCH v15] This is the ABI for the two halves of a para-virtualized sound driver to communicate with each to other.

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 08:38:29PM +0200, Oleksandr Andrushchenko wrote:
> 
> 
> On 01/27/2017 08:13 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > .snip..
> > > I am looking at this from FAE's or integrator's POV, when one would need
> > FAE?
> > 
> Field Applications Engineer
> > > to touch different parts of the system. "/0/0/0" makes me feel
> > > sad just because either you have to keep all those numbers in mind (like you
> > > do)
> > > or have documentation available (and know where it is, e.g. sources
> > > of Xen or kernel).
> > > I have a strong feeling that if you can change configuration without
> > > knowing what index stands for it is always better and fail-safer then
> > > just having numbers...
> > Not sure I follow that.
> > 
> > How would you change configuration without knowing the index?
> > 
> > ..snip..
> if one looks at
> .../pcm-dev-0/stream-1/...
> most probably he/she will understand this w/o any documentation,
> because it is human readable
> 
> if one looks at
> .../0/1/...
> well, I believe you can almost do nothing w/o looking at the documentation

I can see the beaty of it.

I can also see the beaty of the old implied mechanism
from a maintaince perspective.

I am maintainer so I am leaning towards the second one
as having less "special" cases.

Sorry, I feel like I am mutilating your baby with this
old boring view of "maintaince" and "conform to the old
standard" :-(


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