Re: [RFC PATCH v2 2/6] ALSA: compress: add new ioctl for setting codec parameters

From: Vinod Koul
Date: Thu Jul 23 2020 - 00:47:47 EST


On 22-07-20, 10:36, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
>
> > > >    * and the stream properties
> > > > + * @set_codec_params: Sets the compressed stream codec
> > > > parameters, Optional
> > > > + * This can be called in during gapless next track codec change
> > > > only to set
> > > > + * codec params
> > >
> > > Would it be clearer if this was called set_next_codec_params()? or
> > > set_next_track_codec_params()?
> > >
> > > Having set_params() and set_codec_params() is a bit confusing since
> > > the semantic difference is not captured in the callback name.
> >
> > set_next_track_codec_params seems more sensible as its next track params.
> > Will change this in next version!
>
> maybe set_params() and set_next_track_params() are enough, not sure if the
> codec reference helps?

params typically refers to whole set of compress parameters which
includes buffer information and codec parameters, so codec reference
would help.

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~Vinod