From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Menzel Subject: Re: How to add a new MIDI device to the usbaudio driver Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:02:04 +0200 Message-ID: <1314093725.3688.12.camel@mattotaupa> References: <4E5234F0.8000502@amlie.name> <4E52401C.8030605@amlie.name> <4E53585D.9050004@amlie.name> <1314090212.3688.6.camel@mattotaupa> <4E537600.2090006@amlie.name> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1134268299777785985==" Return-path: Received: from mail.gw90.de (mail.gw90.de [188.40.100.199]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5141524627 for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:02:08 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <4E537600.2090006@amlie.name> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Cc: Greg KH List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org --===============1134268299777785985== Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-ysCaJlXLpiudPNMIb88+" --=-ysCaJlXLpiudPNMIb88+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Am Dienstag, den 23.08.2011, 11:42 +0200 schrieb Kristian Amlie: > On 08/23/11 11:22, Daniel Mack wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Paul Menzel wrote: [=E2=80=A6] > >> =E2=80=A6 and ask the manufacturer about GNU/Linux support. > >> > >> Something like, you bought the hardware and expect it to work > >> everywhere. Additionally they make money by selling the hardware and n= ot > >> developing a driver, so they should publish the documentation and even > >> pay someone =E2=80=93 like Daniel or Clemens ? =E2=80=93 to write the = support for their > >> hardware. (Only when they say they do not have any money or something > >> like that, you can also tell them to donate/provide free hardware for > >> the developer and a contact address to their M$ Windows developer for > >> questions.) > >=20 > > While I agree in general to your points, I think its not worth the > > effort in this particular case. It's probably very easy to add support > > for this by just sending one magic usb_control_msg up-front, and it's > > not complicated to sniff that value. From a customer standpoint, > > again, I'm sure the manufacturer will just state that they didn't > > promise any Linux support, and so you can't claim it. >=20 > Their homepage states "We are currently in the final phase of > development in making all of our instruments class compliant.", which I > take to mean that they want their future products to use a standard MIDI > interface. Right now, Windows 7 and Vista 64 users are also left in the > dark, so I think they are as eager to fix this as we are, they just > decided to do it on the hardware side instead of the software side. Still sending a message to them, would be good in my opinion. 1. It shows them, that people are using their devices on GNU/Linux and that their decision to make it class compliant is a good move. 2. If they want to change that, maybe they are even releasing the necessary documentation so you can save your time installing Windows. Thanks, Paul --=-ysCaJlXLpiudPNMIb88+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk5TepwACgkQPX1aK2wOHVjCCQCfVAvjD7W01VeHyYXwZa3iR8et xc8An3LDQ1XW+Zd1aRqFMi0Qbu2eRFkL =6NNj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-ysCaJlXLpiudPNMIb88+-- --===============1134268299777785985== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline --===============1134268299777785985==--