[alsa-devel] parameter for pulse device?

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Tue, 2019-09-10 at 10:33 -0700, frederik at ofb.net wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 07:52:24PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > It depends on how pcm.pulse is defined.  If it's defined to take an
> > argument, it can work like that.  (Or sometimes you may need to pass
> > the argument explicitly like "pulse:{device=mointor}".)
> > 
> > The standard pcm.pulse definition provided in alsa-plugins repo
> > doesn't take the argument, and that can be the reason.
> 
> Thank you Takashi. Would it be easy to change alsa-plugins so that it
> takes an argument? Is there a chance that this change would be
> accepted?
> 
> If you can point me to the section of code in e.g. "plughw" where
> argument parsing is done, then I would probably end up modifying
> alsa-plugins myself, just to simplify what I am doing.

This commit might be instructive:
https://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-lib.git;a=commitdiff;h=3c199a0d199f0fae78c9c1b19c11878a6134b3a8

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