At least PulseAudio needs special handling for dummy devices. To allow that to happen automatically, the UCM configuration should contain the information about which PCMs are dummy.
Signed-off-by: Tanu Kaskinen tanu.kaskinen@linux.intel.com --- include/use-case.h | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/use-case.h b/include/use-case.h index 4e13249..f30168f 100644 --- a/include/use-case.h +++ b/include/use-case.h @@ -258,7 +258,17 @@ int snd_use_case_get_list(snd_use_case_mgr_t *uc_mgr, * Recommended names for values: * TQ - Tone Quality * PlaybackPCM - full PCM playback device name + * PlaybackPCMIsDummy - Valid values: "yes" and "no". If set to "yes", the + * PCM named by the PlaybackPCM value is a dummy device, + * meaning that opening it enables an audio path in the + * hardware, but writing to the PCM device has no + * effect. * CapturePCM - full PCM capture device name + * CapturePCMIsDummy - Valid values: "yes" and "no". If set to "yes", the + * PCM named by the CapturePCM value is a dummy device, + * meaning that opening it enables an audio path in the + * hardware, but reading from the PCM device has no + * effect. * PlaybackRate - playback device sample rate * PlaybackChannels - playback device channel count * PlaybackCTL - playback control device name