Marcel Holtmann wrote:

Hi Brad,

I put some junk in the btsco cvs:

alsa-lib.patch
bt/

if you apply alsa-lib.patch and put bt inside alsa-lib/src/pcm then the 
idea is that you can build a userspace alsa driver.

currently it doesn't even compile... it's just based on the jack plugin 
and not yet reworked for bluetooth.


nice start. Actually I tried this by myself some time ago, but haven't
got any further than a skeleton. The main problem I see at the moment is
that we have to develop this inside the ALSA lib source and that is bad.
The reason for this is "pcm_local.h" and its definitions that are not
installed system wide. I don't think that SND_PCM_TYPE_BLUETOOTH is
needed, but I can be wrong of course. The other thing is that this stuff
should belong to the pcm/ext/ directory. My skeleton is attached and I
used these extra lines in ~/.asoundrc

	pcm.aiptek {
		type a2dp
		bdaddr "00:0B:xx:xx:xx:xx"
	}

Assuming that /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_a2dp.so exists this
works as it should. So we have PCM at the input side of this plugin and
we send SBC over AVDTP to our headphone.

Hi,
i think this goes to the wrong direction.
1. Even if there exist alsa library for many programms it is sufficent to use /dev/dsp and /dev/audio.
This mean that the soundcard driver should work independent of the alsa library.

For me looks this very similar to the old pwc driver problem.
a) An kernel module that create an hook for interact with an non kernel module
b) There is an gerneral interface dsp/audio/mixer wich become crippled without the alsa lib
So why not be conesquent and put btsco int the snd-bt-sco module ?
Like other hardware the module is tooled via command line or IOCTL wich bt-device it should handle.

Than the we have and "single" module wich is responsable for handling bluetooth sound.
Currently it look more like an skeleton for me that grab data from SCO and tell BTSCO how to configure the hardware.

So what are the grounds for moving btsco to the lib inseat of moving it to the module ?

Cu Thomas
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