On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 09:33:05AM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> Vinod Koul wrote:

> > Configuration convergence:
> > >From the OS side, we have Desktop OSes relying on PA, Chrome using CRAS,
> > Android using flinger. With DSPs and tons of configuration it doesn't bode
> > well to have multiple configuration for same stuff for the sound cards. Can
> > we talk about unifying the configuration at least. Sure OSes will have their
> > own ways to use, but from ALSA can we standardize configurations which
> > can be reused across.

> I thought UCM was targeted to this, but not widely used as expected?

Right, the problems with alsa-lib licensing and the changes in the
configuration format have been a bit of a blocker - there are actually
some substantial deployments of the pre-merge configuration file format.