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From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Subject: Re: Card information in /proc or /sys
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 08:45:45 +0200
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To: Florian Faber <faber@faberman.de>
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Florian Faber wrote:
> I want to expose more information about the sound card's ports (names,
> connectors etc.) to userspace in a standardized manner.

There is not yet a standard for this type of information.

There are plans to expose this in the form of TLV structures, which can
be attached to mixer controls or returned by new IOCTLs.


Regards,
Clemens