[alsa-devel] right way to enumerate pcm devices

[sylvain.bertrand at gmail.com]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 02:36:00PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> The entries without hints are filtered out as default.
> i.e. a user-defined entry appears, too, if it contains the hints.
> 
> You can change the behavior by setting defaults.namehint.showall,
> too.

Hi again,

I am listing the pcm devices, and for the USB mic of my webcam, I get input
(IOID=Input) pcm devices for surroundX/frontspeakers/IEC958, which are
actually output pcm devices.
Why those output pcm devices are hinted as input devices?? Is this expected?
Bug? If not, how am I supposed to select the proper input pcm devices the
right(tm) way ?

regards,

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Sylvain