Re: human-readable audio device descriptions

2021-07-07 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Wed, Jul 07, 2021 at 03:13:37PM +0100, Edd Barrett wrote: > Hi, > > This diff is an attempt to make identifying audio devices easier by > giving each device a human-readable description that can be read from > userspace (and without scraping dmesg). > > This is implemented on a per-audio-devic

Re: human-readable audio device descriptions

2021-07-07 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Wed, Jul 07, 2021 at 08:25:16AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > This diff is an attempt to make identifying audio devices easier by > > giving each device a human-readable description that can be read from > > userspace (and without scraping dmesg). > > But why does anyone want that? > > Isn't

Re: human-readable audio device descriptions

2021-07-07 Thread Theo de Raadt
> This diff is an attempt to make identifying audio devices easier by > giving each device a human-readable description that can be read from > userspace (and without scraping dmesg). But why does anyone want that? Isn't everyone served best when there is a public portable interface, and all the

human-readable audio device descriptions

2021-07-07 Thread Edd Barrett
Hi, This diff is an attempt to make identifying audio devices easier by giving each device a human-readable description that can be read from userspace (and without scraping dmesg). This is implemented on a per-audio-device basis using a new `descr` interface to `audio_hw_if`. For now I've only i