On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote:

> On Wednesday 19 February 2003 14:51, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > there is the name field for each rawmidi substream, and the sequencer
> > looks up this string.
> >
> > this reminds me the former patch by Clemens, and i've forgotten to
> > check this issue until now.  sorry.
> >
> > i modified the sequencer part (and mpu401_uart) on the cvs so that the
> > sequencer retrieves the rawmidi name string if the substream name is
> > not defined. 
> 
> But Clemens' patch (attached is a slightly modified version) was not for port 
> names but for client names, from "External MIDI x" to the more meaningful 
> rawmidi name. I think that this is what some people is requesting, and makes 
> things easier for large studio setups when some applications, like kaconnect, 
> show client names but not port names. Please, apply.

I don't agree with this patch. kaconnect or other applications might 
simply parse the string and if matches - get the real name over the 
control interface. Otherwise, it is not clear, that the port is equal to
a rawmidi device.

                                                Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, SuSE Labs



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