[alsa-devel] Strange bug in .asoundrc ??

[Clemens Ladisch]

Dominique Larchey-Wendling wrote:
>  > It appears this behaviour is by design.
> 
> Ok so this is not a bug but a feature ;-)
> However, it is not specified in the doc that alsa-lib makes a semantic 
> distinction between the types of objects

If a somewhat complete documentation existed, it would certainly mention
this.

> in the alisp language.

The configuration language is not alisp.

> What is strange is that the same function is called in alsa-lib to
> expand hw:0 whether it is prefixed with "ctl" or "pcm" :
> 
> snd_config_search_definition(root, "ctl", name, &ctl_conf);
> 
> and
> 
> snd_config_search_definition(root, "pcm", name, &pcm_conf);

This function is called with a string like "tata" and returns the string
"hw:0" (it would return the compound node {type hw card 0} when it would
be called with "hw:0").

In the PCM code, it is the following recursive call of
snd_pcm_open_noupdate() that causes the extra lookup to happen.

> but my question was more why is it designed this way ?

Well, "designed" may be too strong a word; it implies that somebody
actually thought about it.  :-)

I'd guess that this functionality was never needed for any device type
except PCM because there aren't any plugins that could be used in place
of "hw".


Regards,
Clemens