[alsa-devel] Loopback device conf/alias

[pl bossart]

I played with the snd_aloop module that Jaroslav added a couple of
days ago. It just does what I wanted and seems to work ok :-) Thanks
for this patch!

I would like however to expose this output as a PulseAudio profile.
Using a string such as hw:%f conflicts with other analog output
profiles, and the actual card index will vary depending on each
hardware setup.
Is there a way to have an alias or a configuration so that I could use
a profile definition as aloop:%f in PulseAudio, and use arecord
-Daloop for my monitoring app. By default the playback device would be
0 and the capture one 1. As long as the card index is handle
automatically I am happy.

I tried to play with alsa-lib .conf files, no luck (I really have no
idea how this works). Any ideas on how to add an alias?
Thanks for your feedback
-Pierre