Re: [FFADO-devel] API capabilities needed of an in-kernel streaming engine

[Clemens L. <cl...@la...>]

Arnold Krille wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 December 2010 18:19:46 Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> > As for ALSA, it meets the other requirements, except for the channel names.
> > At the moment, addition of meta information like this is being discussed
> > (the media API is originating from V4L).
> 
> Please do not limit this to a limited number of configurations with channel
> names from a configuration file. Make alsa get the names from the device (or the
> actual driver). Dice devices for example allow arbitrary channel names to be
> configured (not yet implemented in ffado).
> 
> Not to mention that network-sound like avb or ravenna will have channel names
> which can never be configured by something locally...

The idea is that this information is read from the device, or known to
the driver.  The media API is an addition to the kernel API.


Regards,
Clemens