From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Gabriel M. Beddingfield" Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] ALSA: snd-usb: Some small fixes to make Playback Design products work Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:37:51 -0700 Message-ID: <5147CF7F.9070805@gmail.com> References: <1363522047-7515-1-git-send-email-zonque@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-pb0-f46.google.com (mail-pb0-f46.google.com [209.85.160.46]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF356265CA9 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 2013 03:38:05 +0100 (CET) Received: by mail-pb0-f46.google.com with SMTP id uo15so6949950pbc.19 for ; Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:38:04 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: Takashi Iwai Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, clemens@ladisch.de, Daniel Mack , demian@auraliti.com, ray@auraliti.com, andreas@akdesigninc.com List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On 03/18/2013 02:07 AM, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > The remaining question is which PCM format is suitable for the raw > data. SND_PCM_FORMAT_SPECIAL should be OK, it won't regress at least, > as no apps support this format. I got the impression that SND_PCM_FORMAT_SPECIAL was there for appication-specific/device-specific hacks. I.e. it's a non-format that allows passing raw data through the system. If so, is it appropriate for a main-line driver? -gabriel