[alsa-devel] UCM questions

pl bossart bossart.nospam at gmail.com
Tue Jan 25 22:58:19 CET 2011


>> Most of my questions are not really on the abstraction but really on
>> how to handle devices that can be plugged or may not be active at all
>> times. USB, HDMI, Wireless/remote displays fall in this category. So
>> on top of the traditional local headset/speakers, I can either have a
>> variety of devices that can be used for the same use case. It's still
>> not clear to me if I would need to create a set of new verbs
>> (hifi_usb, hifi_hdmi) or if I can stick to the existing verbs and add
>> a modifier?
>
> You should stick to the existing verb and use a new device in most cases
> above where your use case is the same but the output device is
> different.

ok, thanks for clarifying.


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