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From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Subject: Re: Test device for automated testing
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 14:59:04 +0200
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Uli Franke wrote:
> we're currently writing a lot of ALSA user space applications. In order
> to test this code with our unit testing and other test environments we'd
> like to know if there's a dummy PCM device which provides the
> fundamental operations like reading/writing and setting the common
> hardware parameters.

That would be the snd-dummy module.

If you cannot load kernel drivers, you could try the virtual "null"
device, but that one does not have realistic timing.


Regards,
Clemens