Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: dpcm: don't do hw_param when BE has done hw_param

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Mon, 13 Jan 2014 10:48:51 +0000,
Liam Girdwood wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 2014-01-11 at 10:35 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Fri, 10 Jan 2014 18:43:09 +0000,
> > Liam Girdwood wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Fri, 2014-01-10 at 14:46 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > > > At Fri, 10 Jan 2014 12:29:08 +0000,
> > > > Liam Girdwood wrote:
> > > > > 
> 
> > > 
> > > The intention was to use the existing alsa-lib/tinyalsa PCM hw_params
> > > APIs. The BE would just export itself to usespace as a PCM (but without
> > > the capability for direct playback/capture - just format, rate setting)
> > 
> > Does it mean that, from kernel perspective, a BE creates a dedicated
> > (virtual) PCM device and expose it to user-space?  Or just through
> > special API?
> 
> I'm thinking a virtual PCM if you agree. 
> 
> We could keep the same userspace API for configuration OR we could
> extend the API slightly to add some snd_pcm_virtual_() functions.
> Extending the API would imply the virtual PCM only supports a subset of
> PCM API calls (avoiding any confusion/mixing with regular PCM APIs).

Yeah, I agree that a simple PCM device exposure would be more
straightforward.


thanks,

Takashi