>>>>> "Mike" == Mike Long <mike.long@analog.com> writes:

Mike> 3) I also took the opportunity to get rid of the name member of struct
Mike>    audio_encoding, because I strongly dislike the idea of passing
Mike>    strings back and forth between the kernel and userland.  Userland
Mike>    code can generate the name itself if necessary.

I find it quite handy in my mixer app to just query the kernel for the
names of what encodings are available.  That way I can just suck the
strings right out for the menu, and not worry about the whole
translation-to-names quagmire (keeping up with new encodings and
recompiling new tables, etc etc.)

==John