[alsa-devel] CORRECTION (get rid of controls with?snd_ctl_remove )

[Harald Radke]

> For the greatest flexibility you really want the activation and
> deactivation to be doable via user space - many devices (especially
> complex ones like smartphones) can run with several different audio
> setups and need to change between them on the fly at run time.  Trying
> to encode all the possible scenarios in the kernel makes for a
> relatively large amount of work when there are a lot of options.

(: I didn't mean to hide activation/deactivation of controls from userspace by 
spinning the idea of an codec instantiation but merely as a convenient base 
setup for devices...in fact I always prefer larger system interfaces compared 
to locked up ones 

Harry