linux-kernel - Re: [alsa-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/3] ALSA: compress: Add support for FLAC

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Message-ID: <20191119041521.GB82508@vkoul-mobl>
Date:   Tue, 19 Nov 2019 09:45:21 +0530
From:   Vinod Koul <vkoul@...nel.org>
To:     Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>, alsa-devel@...a-project.org,
        Banajit Goswami <bgoswami@...eaurora.org>,
        linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org, Patrick Lai <plai@...eaurora.org>,
        Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
        Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/3] ALSA: compress: Add support for FLAC

On 15-11-19, 08:55, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
> 
> 
> On 11/15/19 4:27 AM, Vinod Koul wrote:
> > The current design of sending codec parameters assumes that decoders
> > will have parsers so they can parse the encoded stream for parameters
> > and configure the decoder.
> 
> that's not quite correct. It's rather than there was no need so far for
> existing implementations to have parameters on decode, this was never a
> limitation of the design, see e.g. the comments below:

You might be correct here as this is implementation based and in this
case looks like decoders also need the additional params

-- 
~Vinod