Hello ALSA team, At the recent Sounds Expo in London, I took the opportunity to talk to FireWire interface vendors, and also to Yamaha about MLan. Regarding FireWire audio in general, the companies were much more positive this year, actively talking about working with the Linux audio community. I suspect this has a lot to do with a) an increase in the level of customers asking about Linux and b) high-profile manufacturers, such as Korg, adopting Linux for music devices which will quite possibly have built-in FireWire support. The representative of M-Audio was under the impression that 'the guys from SuSE' were working with them on support for the FireWire 410 product. Is this indeed the case, or are you working under NDA perhaps? Other companies that provided new contacts included Focusrite (they now also make a FireWire interface), and the UK distributor of RME products. If we can help the ALSA project by passing on these contacts, just let me know. (I also have a contact with Behringer regarding support for their USB 2.0 interface and control surfaces). On the subject of MLan, I was given a contact in the MLan licensing department at Yamaha when I enquired if there was some way the control node specification could be made available to linuxaudio.org members. Last year at Sounds Expo, a representative of Yamaha gave the opinion that developers could probably have the specs if they asked for them, so it's about time we chased this up. Cheers! Daniel