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From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
To: Eliot Blennerhassett <linux@audioscience.com>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Subject: Re: asihpi: Control naming
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 11:47:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CAAF420.9090805@ladisch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CAADE8F.9030104@audioscience.com>

Eliot Blennerhassett wrote:
> On 05/10/10 20:07, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> > Capture controls affect audio data that is recorded by the computer.
> > Playback controls affect audio data that comes out of the sound card.
> 
> OK. I think everything fits one of these two.
> 
> I find the asymmetry a little odd. (i.e. Capture controls defined by
> destination of PCM Capture, while Playback controls not defined by
> source of PCM Playback)

In both cases, it's the destination that determines the type.

When it comes to partitioning the controls into two groups according
to overall direction, using the destination makes the most sense in
practice.

> I.e. in reality they are "Capture" and "Output"

Yes, but this naming convention is already there for hysterical raisins.


Regards,
Clemens

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-05  9:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-30  3:44 asihpi: Control naming Eliot Blennerhassett
2010-09-30  5:46 ` Takashi Iwai
2010-09-30 20:23   ` Eliot Blennerhassett
2010-09-30 20:56     ` Takashi Iwai
2010-09-30 21:28       ` Sebastian H.
2010-10-01  7:05         ` Clemens Ladisch
2010-10-01 11:31           ` Sebastian H.
2010-10-01 12:45             ` Raymond Yau
2010-10-01 13:19             ` Clemens Ladisch
2010-10-01 20:06               ` Sebastian H.
2010-10-02  4:10                 ` Raymond Yau
2010-10-02 11:10                   ` Sebastian H.
2010-09-30 23:47       ` Mark Brown
2010-10-05  5:10       ` Eliot Blennerhassett
2010-10-05  7:07         ` Clemens Ladisch
2010-10-05  8:14           ` Eliot Blennerhassett
2010-10-05  8:15           ` Eliot Blennerhassett
2010-10-05  9:47             ` Clemens Ladisch [this message]
2010-10-05  9:53               ` Takashi Iwai
2010-10-06 22:55               ` asihpi: Control naming, Irritated Currant edition Eliot Blennerhassett
2010-09-30 20:56     ` asihpi: Control naming Takashi Iwai
2010-09-30  6:28 ` David Henningsson

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