Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano wrote: > > > i'm with fernando on this one. if consistency is the goal, and i think > > > it should be, then multiport MIDI devices should appear as multiple > > > ports, not subdevices.
BTW: The old driver had one (emulated) rawmidi device per sequencer port, each having 16(?) subdevices to enable concurrent access. > > We have no minor numbers for direct addressing of tenths rawmidi devices. We have eight minor numbers. On 8-port interfaces like the UM-880 or the MidiSport 8x8, the ninth port (for control/timing data) is the most interesting one. > That's really too bad. What does that address space look like at this > point and how is it used? (ie: what is it that is available?) There is one major number each for OSS (14) and ALSA (116), so we have 256 minor numbers for all devices. ALSA supports up to 8 cards, so there are 32 minors per card. There are 8 rawmidi minors (8-15). OSS has 16 minors per card. Rawmidi devices use 2 (/dev/midix) and 13 (/dev/amidix). The other minors are mostly used for other devices (see minor.h), but at least for OSS it may be possible to use the "reserved" numbers 7 and 15 for two other rawmidi devices. Hmmm, /dev/bmidix and /dev/cmidix? :-) > Is it possible to at least to fix the behavior in the OSS world? I think it would be possible to add two more options (midi_minor_map and amidi_minor_map) to the snd-rawmidi module, but I'm not sure this would be the best solution. Regards, Clemens ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
