From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lee Revell Subject: Re: Feature needed for EMU1820m driver Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:43:27 -0400 Message-ID: <1159382608.1275.41.camel@mindpipe> References: <451ABFD1.5030206@superbug.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <451ABFD1.5030206@superbug.co.uk> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net To: James Courtier-Dutton Cc: alsa-devel List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 19:15 +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > Hi, > > The E-MU 1820m consists of a PCI card with a connector on it. > A cable then runs to an external box called the AudioDock with all the > audio IO on it. > The AudioDock is hot pluggable. > The problem is that no interrupts occur if one connects the AudioDock. > One would have to poll the device until one saw a certain bit being set. > One would then know the AudioDock was there. The driver then needs to > load some firmware into the AudioDock. > > My question is, what should I use to monitor for the plug/unplug of the > AudioDock? I would expect some user land app could do the polling, but > that might require some new ALSA api to support it. Standard kernel timer? That's what network drivers use to poll for link state changes... Lee ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV