From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Clemens Ladisch Subject: Re: [PATCH - alsa-utils 5/5] The amidicat program itself, better late than never Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 08:53:26 +0200 Message-ID: <53BE3866.1030806@ladisch.de> References: <1404118503-22921-1-git-send-email-alsa@krellan.com> <1404118503-22921-6-git-send-email-alsa@krellan.com> <1404863718.378573458@f135.i.mail.ru> <53BCD277.3040908@krellan.com> <53BCF522.2080609@ladisch.de> <53BDD1F4.5030003@krellan.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from dehamd003.servertools24.de (dehamd003.servertools24.de [31.47.254.18]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 125E22651EB for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2014 08:53:28 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <53BDD1F4.5030003@krellan.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: Josh Lehan Cc: Sergey , alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Josh Lehan wrote: > On 07/09/2014 12:54 AM, Clemens Ladisch wrote: >>> (unlike aplaymidi, amidicat does no filtering, it shows you >>> everything, even including itself in the list). >> >> It should list only those ports it can use, i.e., connect from/to. > > It already does, in a way. Anything that has read/write permission, > direct and/or subscription, is usable. I like showing everything, it's > useful for diagnostics/troubleshooting. Showing unusable ports _will_ introduce user errors. If you are doing troubleshooting for something that does not involve amidicat, the complete port list is already available in /proc/asound/seq/clients. Regards, Clemens