On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 03:13:55PM +0900, Kuninori Morimoto wrote:

> > If the sound card specifies something why not just use it verbatim
> > instead of trying to merge?

> I'm thinking the way that for example select "format" automatically,
> but specify others from Card, etc (= not all settings).
> Because as you are concerning, some driver might has complex limitations for some parts.
> We want to manually and directly select it from Card in such case.

> My idea was very simple, but indeed I could understand your concern.
> I have no good idea so far, but want to consider about it more.

Yeah, the only thing I can think of is big lists of configurations.
That's not the end of the world but it's potentially annoying, we should
be able to get helpers that make life easier I guess.