Re: firewire mixer interface -- was Re: [PATCH 11/11] ALSA: digi00x: apply double-oh-three algorism to multiplex PCM samples

Takashi Iwai
2015-03-20T13:35:07Z

At Fri, 20 Mar 2015 22:25:26 +0900,
Takashi Sakamoto wrote:
>
> >> On the other hand, IEEE 1394 bus-connected sound devices implements its
> >> own way to tell their control capabilities and model-specific way to
> >> perform control. Thus we should prepare for model-specific parsers. The
> >> idea to include these parsers into kernel-space increases maintaining
> >> efforts.
> >
> > Agreed. Most of the heavy lifting should probably be done by libasound.
>
> I don't think it possible to argue the other ALSA developers for going
> to include such vendor-specific or model-specific huge codes to
> alsa-lib... (Except for intel HDA)

Why not implementing as a plugin?

Takashi