[alsa-devel] Card name size?

[Alan Horstmann]

On Monday 12 January 2015 16:55, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Sun, 11 Jan 2015 20:52:00 +0000, Alan Horstmann wrote:
> > Just a quick question...
> > is there a (guaranteed) max size to the name string returned by
> >    snd_ctl_card_info_get_name()
> > or is it just whatever the driver sets?
>
> It's max 32 letters (including NUL).
> longname and mixername are max 80, id and driver are max 16.

Thanks very much; so I am OK to use a fixed 32 char array (with strncpy() just 
to be safe).

BTW my original post didn't seem to make it to the list. Any idea why?

Regards

Alan