From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Carlos Munoz <carlos@kenati.com>
Cc: alsa-devel <alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: What is /dev/snd/hwC0D0 used for ?
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:37:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1143754662.22530.9.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <442C2CCE.5070207@kenati.com>
On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 11:09 -0800, Carlos Munoz wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Does any anyone know what /dev/snd/hwCxDx and /dev/snd/timer are used for?
>
Yes, these provide the ioctl() interface (specifically the hwdep and
timer ioctls, respectively) that alsa-lib uses to communicate with the
kernel. They are only intended for use by alsa-lib.
> Is there a document explaining what all the devices are used for ? I
> searched but didn't find anything.
>
No because these interfaces are intended to be private to alsa-lib. The
source code is authoritative.
Lee
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-30 21:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-30 19:09 What is /dev/snd/hwC0D0 used for ? Carlos Munoz
2006-03-30 21:37 ` Lee Revell [this message]
2006-03-31 1:45 ` Paul Davis
2006-03-31 2:47 ` Lee Revell
2006-03-31 9:53 ` Takashi Iwai
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