From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Takashi Iwai Subject: Re: alsa-lib plugin devel Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 17:46:26 +0100 Message-ID: References: <41F522DE.30702@xmission.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.5 - "Awara-Onsen") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: In-Reply-To: <41F522DE.30702@xmission.com> Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Brad Midgley Cc: Clemens Ladisch , alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org At Mon, 24 Jan 2005 09:31:26 -0700, Brad Midgley wrote: > > Hi > > None of the gui alsa-lib clients I've used allow for a freeform device > name to be entered. Hmm, I thought many of them allow to a free text. > Should we be telling linphone, xine, gnomemeeting, > etc developers to allow a freeform device name? Yes. We can create a new API to list up the available PCMs. It will help applications, I guess. The problem is that plugins which aren't bound to drivers like btsco are hard to detect whether they really work in advance. Do we need a probe callback for such a plugin? Takashi ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl