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From: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
To: Chemsi Mehdi <chmsmehdi@gmail.com>
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Subject: Re: How does ALSALIB commuciates with low level kernel API
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 23:13:52 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160620174352.GV16910@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHkWnPYuUgrARoMDHjg-0vSKVfz7x6tfh9cpzoEHzvEs+cvUKA@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 12:12:24AM +0100, Chemsi Mehdi wrote:
> Dear experts,
> 
> I am too new in ALSA, trying to read a little bit and understand.
> I want to underatnd how ALSA userspace API calls kernel space code ?
> for example when I call  snd_pcm_open() which code is called in kernel
> sound code ?

easist would be to start gdb on alsa-lib snd_pcm_open() and start tracing
the steps.


> and how the link is made ? via IOCTL/write ?

IOCTL, see sound/core/pcm_native.c on kernel side..

-- 
~Vinod

      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-06-20 17:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-14 23:12 How does ALSALIB commuciates with low level kernel API Chemsi Mehdi
2016-06-15  7:00 ` Clemens Ladisch
2016-06-20 17:43 ` Vinod Koul [this message]

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