From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Hofman Subject: Re: [PATCH - aplay 1/1] aplay - option to dump HW parameters Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 15:43:08 +0100 Message-ID: <4F54D0FC.60103@ivitera.com> References: <1330720378-24855-1-git-send-email-pavel.hofman@ivitera.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from cable.insite.cz (static-84-242-75-189.net.upcbroadband.cz [84.242.75.189]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A42610432C for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2012 15:46:11 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: Takashi Iwai Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Dne 5.3.2012 15:23, Takashi Iwai napsal(a): > At Fri, 2 Mar 2012 20:32:58 +0000, > pavel.hofman@ivitera.com wrote: >> >> From: Pavel Hofman >> >> Dumping HW parameters of the current device with snd_pcm_hw_params_dump, >> a new option --dump-hw-params added. > > Well, the purpose and the actual operation of this option is a bit > unclear with such a short description. Your patch adds the output of > the pre-config state of the hw_params. It makes sense since the > post-config state is shown via -v option. If this is the intended > behavior, please write a bit more details in the man page. > > Takashi, thanks for your reply. Could I call it hardware capabilities of the device? Because that is what I think it is. E.g. I fixed that ice1724 rate-lock incompletion with help of this dump and people have been asking me about listing similar to ossinfo -v4. Pavel.