Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] ASoC: tegra: ASRC control fixes and ratio caching

[Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>]

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On Mon, Sep 21, 2026 at 02:07:19PM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote:

> Given the ABI change, do we have a good understanding of who might be
> using these features? My understanding is that these are used for the
> setup of hardware pipelines involving sample rate conversions. So these
> are likely not your regular users that just want to change the volume
> for headphones and such. This is for highly specific use-cases. Do we
> know if people use extra userspace software on top of ALSA to set these
> up, or are they typically dealing with fixed configuration files for
> specifying these values?

...

> Mark, Liam, do you have any guidelines on how to handle such ABI
> changes?

I don't really, beyond your already very good summary.  It depends a lot
on knowledge of the users for the device, their level of expertise and
how likely anyone is to be using the individual feature in the first
place.  Obviously it's an ABI break so we shouldn't really be doing it
if we can avoid it, but if everyone involved is happy and has a good way
to deal with the changes then it's not really a problem.  

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