i've been wondering what to do about setting sample rates in the hammerfall and h-dsp drivers. fernando and gary from CCRMA have made the excellent suggestion that rather than have the driver pretend that all rates are available all the time, as it currently does, that we have a control switch to go between regular rates and the "double speed" or "bitsplit" rates (64kHz-96kHz) which reduce the channel count. i think this is an excellent idea. you would not be able to use the switch while the device was open. when you opened it, you would find (for example) a device with 14 channels (12 ADAT plus 2 SPDIF) at 64-96kHz or 26 channels (24 ADAT+2 SPDIF) at 32-48kHz.
if anyone objects to this model, please let me know. right now, its more or less impossible to get access to the higher rates. on a related note, although the above suggestion will fix this particular problem, it seems that it might be wise to consider adding a parameter order information field to the driver API, so that drivers can say "you have to set param P first, then param N, then param O". the default would obviously be "don't care", but for devices that lose certain capabilities when certain parameters are set, it would make things very much easier. --p ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
