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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>, Jeeja KP <jeeja.kp@intel.com>,
	alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, liam.r.girdwood@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] compress: add support for gapless playback
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 11:34:32 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130213113431.GA5062@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <s5hhalgvf4k.wl%tiwai@suse.de>


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On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 08:37:15AM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> Vinod Koul wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 07:23:32AM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:

> > > But this makes difficult to know which parameter is unavailable in
> > > this kernel, as already mentioned in the thread.  You need to add
> > > another ioctl or add a mask in the struct.  Or, take back to single
> > > key/value pairs, so user can see the -ENOENT or such error for
> > > non-existing parameters.

> > Right, but we have the API version.

> But what if a driver doesn't support a particular metadata?
> Or would you mandate for every driver to support all metadata?

I tend to agree with Takashi here, it seems better if we can have
drivers able to implement only a subset of features especially if the
API does get extended.

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-13 11:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-12 18:31 [PATCH] compress: add support for gapless playback Vinod Koul
2013-02-13  6:23 ` Takashi Iwai
2013-02-13  6:35   ` Vinod Koul
2013-02-13  7:37     ` Takashi Iwai
2013-02-13 11:34       ` Mark Brown [this message]
2013-02-13 13:39       ` Vinod Koul
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-02-14 11:22 Vinod Koul
2013-02-14 11:31 ` Takashi Iwai
2013-02-14 13:37   ` Vinod Koul
2013-02-14  8:42 Vinod Koul
2013-02-14  9:13 ` Takashi Iwai
2013-02-14  9:32   ` Vinod Koul
2013-02-14  9:45     ` Takashi Iwai
2013-02-14 11:06       ` Vinod Koul
2013-02-13 16:00 Vinod Koul
2013-02-13 16:40 ` Takashi Iwai
2013-02-13 17:03   ` Vinod Koul
2013-02-13 17:15     ` Takashi Iwai
2013-02-13 17:21       ` Vinod Koul
2013-02-11 12:22 Vinod Koul
2013-02-11 13:41 ` Takashi Iwai
2013-02-11 13:41   ` Vinod Koul
2013-02-11 14:38     ` Takashi Iwai
2013-02-11 14:55       ` Vinod Koul
2013-02-11 15:30         ` Takashi Iwai

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