From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: paul@linuxaudiosystems.com
Cc: Carlos Munoz <carlos@kenati.com>,
alsa-devel <alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: What is /dev/snd/hwC0D0 used for ?
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 21:47:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1143773231.22771.15.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1143769524.7539.54.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 20:45 -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 16:37 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> is this confirmed policy?
>
Nope, just my understanding of the situation. Corrections are welcome.
> what happens about support for devices that have classes of control
> that do not fit into the existing ALSA schema and have traditionally
> been handled via device-specific ioctl's on /dev/snd/hwFOO ?
>
Good question. I know the upstream kernel policy is "no new ioctls,
period"...
Lee
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-31 2:47 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
2006-03-31 1:45 ` Paul Davis
2006-03-31 2:47 ` Lee Revell [this message]
2006-03-31 9:53 ` Takashi Iwai
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