>I would be delighted if someone could tell me what the name semantics are.
there are none. just use the string provided the user, or "default" if they don't provide any (or "hw:0,0" if you prefer and have good reasons for doing so). >In BruteFIR I only want to be as close to the hardware as possible, with all due respect, since not a line of your code has to be changed to be close to or far from the hardware, shouldn't this be a choice offered to the user, rather than a decision made by you? if i want to use BruteFIR on 4 channels of my 26 channel hammerfall, why should you stop me from doing that? i understand that it may not work as well as with "hw:dev,subdev", but thats not your fault, thats mine for requesting this. your current approach to calling snd_pcm_open(), prohibits this, even though the rest of your code allows it. --p _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel