[linux-audio-dev] XAP: Strings and Raw Data Controls

[Steve Harris]

On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 07:12:29 +0100, David Olofson wrote:
> 	* Raw data blocks belong to the sender.
> 
> 	* Received raw data blocks are only valid until the
> 	  the plugin returns from process().
> 
> 	* Senders can figure out at init time how many
> 	  and how big data blocks they need.
> 
> That would make things quite trivial, as you can just assume that the 
> blocks you send are yours to use again for the next block. However, 
> I'm not sure how useful such a scheme is. It's sort of weird that you 
> end up with undefined "value" on some controls, unless they get input 
> first thing every block. *heh*

Well, they would presumably keep the values from the previous data block.

This sounds quite reasonable, and efficient. 

- Steve