[alsa-devel] [PATCH - alsa-utils 5/5] The amidicat program itself, better late than never

[Clemens Ladisch]

Josh Lehan wrote:
> On 07/09/2014 12:54 AM, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
>>> (unlike aplaymidi, amidicat does no filtering, it shows you
>>> everything, even including itself in the list).
>>
>> It should list only those ports it can use, i.e., connect from/to.
>
> It already does, in a way.  Anything that has read/write permission,
> direct and/or subscription, is usable.  I like showing everything, it's
> useful for diagnostics/troubleshooting.

Showing unusable ports _will_ introduce user errors.

If you are doing troubleshooting for something that does not involve
amidicat, the complete port list is already available in
/proc/asound/seq/clients.


Regards,
Clemens