[LAU] Newer USB audio interfaces

Clemens Ladisch cladisch at fastmail.net
Tue May 5 03:41:41 EDT 2009


Paul Davis wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 2:49 AM, Clemens Ladisch <cladisch at fastmail.net> wrote:
> > Paul Davis wrote:
> > > General point: there will be no linux support for USB2 audio devices
> > > that looks anything like what currently exists for USB1. There is no
> > > "class compliant device specification" for USB2 audio at present (and
> > > my guess is that there will never be one).
> >
> > Actually, there is (http://www.usb.org/developers/devclass_docs), but
> > there is no hardware or software that implements it.
> 
> Do you know the reason(s) why?

I'd guess that Microsoft doesn't ship a driver as long as there is no
device to test it with, and that nobody builds a device if it does not
work with Windows.


Best regards,
Clemens



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