[linux-audio-user] [USB audio capture]: "standard" drivers, "mixers" and level controls

[Daniel James]

> The newer M-Audio devices are compatible to the USB Audio
> specification after the driver has loaded a device-specific
> firmware into them. Such a loader doesn't yet exist for Linux.

Would it be worth an ALSA or USB developer approaching M Audio 
offering to write such a firmware loader in return for sponsorship, 
or as a contracting job? It's got to be worth it from their point of 
view. 

Cheers

Daniel