[PATCH 0/4] ALSA: ump: Fix RPN/NRPN handling at MIDI 1.0 CC conversion

From: HyeongJun An

Date: Sun Nov 08 2026 - 07:48:07 EST


Hello Takashi,

As you asked in [1], this puts Alyandra's selector fix and my fixes for
the other RPN/NRPN cases into one series, for both the UMP core
converter and the sequencer.

Patches 1 and 2 are Alyandra's [2], without the KUnit test. Selecting
an RPN now clears the NRPN selection and vice versa. Patches 3 and 4
keep the selection after a send and clear only the data, drop data when
nothing is selected, and handle a Null NRPN like a Null RPN.

What a MIDI 2.0 receiver gets, before and after the series:

Input Before After
Null RPN, Data Entry, select RPN 0/1 RPN 0/0 = 0x40 nothing
Data Entry, select RPN 0/1 RPN 0/0 = 0x40 nothing
RPN 0/2 + data, data again, RPN 0/1 0/2, then 0/0 0/2, 0/2
Null RPN, Data Entry, select NRPN 0/5 NRPN 0/0 = 0x40 nothing
select RPN 0/0, NRPN 1/2 + data RPN 0/0 NRPN 1/2
Null NRPN, Data Entry NRPN 127/127 nothing
select RPN 0/127, Null RPN, data RPN 0/127 nothing
RPN 0/1 + data, CC 38, select RPN 0/2 0/1, then 0/0 0/1, 0/1
RPN 1/1 + data, RPN LSB 2, data 1/1, then 0/2 1/1, 1/2
Null RPN, RPN MSB 5, data RPN 5/0 RPN 5/127
RPN 0/1 + data (unchanged) RPN 0/1 RPN 0/1

The 0/127 row and the last two changes come from holding the RPN/NRPN
numbers, as a MIDI 1.0 receiver does.

I checked the core converter with a local KUnit test over 35 input
sequences. The 17 that changed are all of the kinds above, and the
others give the same packets as before. The sequencer side was run
with a legacy client sending CC and CONTROL14 events to a MIDI 2.0
client on a patched kernel under qemu. That test will become the
selftest, with Alyandra's cases added, as a separate patch.

Two cases are left as they were. A CC 6 alone waits for a CC 38 or
the next CC 98 to 101, so a second CC 6 replaces the first instead of
sending it. A CC 38 alone after a send waits the same way, and when
the next CC 98 to 101 flushes it, it still goes out with MSB 0, now
under the kept selection. Changing those would be a separate patch.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/878q33y4z4.wl-tiwai@xxxxxxx/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20261107111056.667-1-alyandra5b@xxxxxxxxx/

Prepared with Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5). Tested on x86_64.

Best regards,
HyeongJun An

Alyandra Zahran Nadhir (2):
ALSA: ump: Clear stale RPN selector on NRPN change
ALSA: seq: ump: Clear stale selectors in sequencer conversion

HyeongJun An (2):
ALSA: ump: Fix RPN/NRPN state handling at MIDI 1.0 CC conversion
ALSA: seq: ump: Fix RPN/NRPN state handling at MIDI 1.0 CC conversion

sound/core/seq/seq_ump_convert.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
sound/core/ump_convert.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
2 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

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