[pulseaudio-discuss] [alsa-devel] ASoC and pulseaudio

[Liam Girdwood]

On Wed, 2016-03-16 at 16:17 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Mar 2016 16:09:49 +0100,
> Mark Brown wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 08:27:04PM +0530, Vinod Koul wrote:
> > 
> > > So I don't think FW name would help, if required we should add dev_info
> > > to print the firmware which is getting loaded.
> > 
> > We can't really be relying on userspace trawling through the logs -
> > quite apart from anything else the message might be long gone by the
> > time the relevant program gets started.
> > 
> > Might be an idea to record it in sysfs somewhere?
> 
> Yeah, that should be feasible.  Also, there is a "component" field
> assigned to the card.  This is supposed to be referred by user-space
> as additional information.  See snd_component_add().
> 

We could also probably put FW versions in sysfs too. Useful for bugs.

Liam