[PATCH] add property alsa.device_pcm_class

Lennart Poettering mzuny at 0pointer.de
Fri Aug 25 10:43:47 PDT 2006


On Thu, 24.08.06 01:11, Danny Kukawka (danny.kukawka at web.de) wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> this patch adds the property alsa.device_pcm_class to alsa devices to show if 
> the device is e.g. a generic sound device or a modem. The new property 
> represents the types of snd_pcm_info_t from the alsa lib (generic, modem, 
> multi, digitizer).

Awesome! I will add support for checking this property to PulseAudio
shortly.

One questions though: why make this property specific to alsa? This
information is interesting on other types of playback devices,
too. Even if for now the property would contain "unknown" at least for
OSS. 

Lennart

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