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From: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 21/30] ALSA: oxfw: Change the way to name
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Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 00:05:31 +0900
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On Dec 1 2014 20:21, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> (While the driver name often is name of the driver, it is also used to
> select one of the configuration files in /usr/share/alsa/cards/.  The
> FireWave and the LaCie speakers are often used for 'normal' 5.1 and 2.0
> playback, and need different configurations, so I used different driver
> names for these.
> 
> For these two devices, the driver name should stay the same.  All the
> other snd-oxfw device are (semi)pro devices where it does not really
> make sense to define devices like "surround51", so the driver name does
> not matter and might as well be "OXFW".)

Exactly. If userspace didn't have the configuration files, I were
willing to use 'OXFW' as driver name for all of models.

> As for the shortname, it is not an internal identifier but typically
> displayed to identify the device for the user.  Something like
> "FWSpeakers" might be recognizable, but I'd prefer the old "FireWire
> Speakers".

In this case (the old name), 'Speakers' is an identical name such as
'hw:Speakers'. IMHO, this is a bit strange because it's usual, not
identical.


Regards

Takashi Sakamoto
o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp