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charset=US-ASCII Message-ID-Hash: NZB3YOEESKXFDPNGZWGLRFKL24ZYSFD7 X-Message-ID-Hash: NZB3YOEESKXFDPNGZWGLRFKL24ZYSFD7 X-MailFrom: tiwai@suse.de X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-alsa-devel.alsa-project.org-0; header-match-alsa-devel.alsa-project.org-1; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: tiwai@suse.com, corbet@lwn.net, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, skhan@linuxfoundation.org, himadrispandya@gmail.com, linux-kernel-mentees@lists.linuxfoundation.org X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.8 Precedence: list List-Id: "Alsa-devel mailing list for ALSA developers - http://www.alsa-project.org" Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On Mon, 01 May 2023 12:16:34 +0200, Ivan Orlov wrote: > > Common ALSA module parameters look a little bit confusing because of the > description lacking, and it took me a while to understand the purpose of > their existence. To figure it out I asked the question about them to the > "alsa-devel" mailing list, and Takashi Iwai answered me with the text I > appended to the ALSA documentation in this patch. > > These common module parameters aren't used a lot nowadays, but as I > understand they are important for providing compatibility with some > existing user-space apps. So in my opinion it is a good idea to document > why we need them. > > Signed-off-by: Ivan Orlov Thanks, applied. Takashi