[alsa-devel] Question regarding snd_pcm_control_ioctl

[Jaroslav Kysela]

On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, Bensaid, Selma wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have question concerning ALSA Core snd_pcm_control_ioctl function.
>
> I have noticed that the IOCTL fails if it's called for a device with 
> substream_count = 0, since I'm implementing a PCM device that supports 
> Record and does not support Playback, the IOCTL fails when called for 
> the Playback stream. I would propose, in such case, to return that the 
> stream has 0 playback substreams instead of failing.

You mean probably that the SNDRV_CTL_IOCTL_PCM_INFO ioctl returns -ENOENT 
when an invalid direction is accessed. It looks correct to me. If 
a direction does not exist, it makes no sense to gather info for it. And 
-ENOENT response clearly shows that this direction is not available, so 
the user space tools can distict if it's an unexpected error or this one.

 						Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <perex at perex.cz>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, Red Hat, Inc.