Re: [Jack-Devel] jackd1/jackd2: FFADO port name divergence

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 06:44:14PM -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Fons Adriaensen <[hidden]> wrote:
> 
> > The really simple way to achieve that is to name the port 'monitors/L'
> > and forget about all other names, aliases or whatever.
> 
> yes, that's the really simple way.
> 
> > And yes that would make e.g. an Ardour session fail when it expects
> > 'monitor/[LR]' and those ports don't exist. It fails becaus it should
> > fail, it does so in a safe way, and it's easy to fix.
> 
> there's no reason why it has to fail at all.

If it doesn't fail to connect it has connected to some arbitray ports.
The consequences of that could be much worse than silence. I had two
speakers damaged that way, and I won't forget it.

Ciao,

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FA

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