[alsa-devel] Unregister a card from userspace?

[Lars-Peter Clausen]

On 11/11/2015 01:59 PM, Ricard Wanderlof wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 11 Nov 2015, Felipe Ferreri Tonello wrote:
> 
>>> But that is precisely the problem. The framework that manages the 
>>> insertion and deletion of modules notes that my module has a usage count 
>>> that is > 0 (in my case it is 2, which I'm convinced is because the card 
>>> has been registered with ALSA), and refuses to free the module. So there 
>>> is now way any unregister_card call can be made when my module is freed, 
>>> as due to the usage count it would never even be attempted.
>>
>> Do you mean that unbind is never called? Well, the framework should call
>> bind/unbind for each user of your module.
> 
> Ok, I didn't know that. It's the first time I've been writing an ALSA 
> driver as a loadable module.
> 
>> How is your architecture? If you use one card for each probe of module
>> then each bind should create one device, right?
> 
> In this case, it is a device which is located on the SoC. There is only 
> one instance of it. When the module is loaded, it loads a codec driver 
> with its associated DAI driver, a PCM driver, snd-soc-dummy-dai, and then 
> a machine driver to tie it all together, finally registering the card with 
> ALSA.
> 
> Looking in /sys/bus/platform/devices, there seems to be one device created 
> for the codec itself, and one for the machine driver. I don't know if 
> that's right or wrong, the ALSA driver hierarchy works in the sense that I 
> can capture audio from it anyway.

Which one is the module you can't unload? The module that contains the
machine driver should only have its reference count increment when a
playback or capture stream is active so you can't remove it when it is
actively in use.

- Lars