On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 01:35:01PM -0400, Adam Goode wrote:
alsa-lib is changed to return a distinct negative value if running on an older kernel. -1 is only returned now if the kernel knows for sure that there is no card or pid. On older kernels, alsa-lib will return -ENOSYS.
Shouldn't we also update the default values of card/pid to -ENOSYS to be more consistent: int card = -1, pid = -1;
@@ -177,13 +177,13 @@ static void print_port(snd_seq_t *seq, snd_seq_client_info_t *cinfo, #ifdef HAVE_SEQ_CLIENT_INFO_GET_CARD card = snd_seq_client_info_get_card(cinfo); #endif
if (card != -1)
if (card >= 0) printf(",card=%d", card);
aconnect from alsa-utils 1.1.1 will break with alsa-lib containing your patch.
The new API is propably not yet widely used, so I think that a ABI change can still be possible. But in that case, alsa-lib/alsa-utils 1.1.1 need quickly be replaced by new releases, so that people don't start using the old API.
Regards, Martin