Re: A report about an enhancement for ALSA firewire stack

[Daniel Wagner <wagi@monom.org>]

Hi Takashi,

On 07/23/2014 11:17 AM, Takashi Sakamoto wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> My work for ALSA firewire stack was pulled into Linux 3.16, therefore
> Linux 3.16 newly supports 60-70 firewire sound devices. The work may
> affects user-space applications such like FFADO. Additionally, I leave
> some issues for the stack.
> 
> So I wrote a report about my work.
> 
> PDF:
> https://github.com/takaswie/alsa-firewire-report/blob/master/firewire.pdf
> 
> Repository:
> https://github.com/takaswie/alsa-firewire-report
> 
> Table of contents
>  1. Introduction
>  2. Common Specifications
>  3. Device features
>  4. Existing drivers
>  5. Investigation for user-land driver
>  6. Investigation for kernel-land driver
>  7. Enhancement of ALSA firewire stack
>  8. Driver implementation
>  9. Rest of issue
> 
> I hope ALSA maintainers to read section 8 and 9.
> 
> For FFADO developers, section 3, 5, 8 will be good information.
> 
> For JACK/PulseAudio and Linux firewire subsystem developers, section 4,
> 5, 6, 7, 9 will be good information.
> 
> I'm not a good English writer and have a little experiences to write
> technical documents. It's my glad to receive some corrections,
> indications, supplements and so on from you.

Great work! I really appreciate your hard work. Unfortunately I am a
little busy and don't have time to review soon.

cheers,
daniel

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