[alsa-devel] snd_device_register / snd_device_disconnect

[Barratis]

Hi Takashi,

I have a virtual card with pcm which can temporarily go offline, I
wanted a way to prevent the user seeing them until they come back
online without having to destroy/recreate the pcm everytime. Since
there was a disconnect call separate from the free, I thought this was
meant to be possible.

I guess I'll simply destroy/recreate my pcms then.

Thanks for your answer.


On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 1:03 AM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:
> At Mon, 14 May 2012 08:23:47 +1000,
> Barratis wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I would have a question regarding the behavior of snd_device_register.
>>
>> Currently, the register operation will only be carried out if the
>> state is SNDRV_DEV_BUILD. This effectively prevents device which have
>> been disconnected via snd_device_disconnect (and thus having the state
>> SNDRV_DEV_DISCONNECTED) to be registered again.
>>
>> Is this a wanted behavior? If so, I can't seem to find a reason for
>> this as per my testing and code reading registering a device in
>> DISCONNECTED sate works just fine.
>
> The disconnected device is disconnected.  Why it must be registered
> again?  In other words, the disconnected device should be freed
> eventually later.  The disconnected state is an intermediate state,
> thus it's never a state ready for any use.
>
>
> Takashi



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