[pulseaudio-discuss] Changes to deal with modem PCMs

[Pierre-Louis Bossart]

On 7/25/2012 4:19 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> If this is for fake streams held open by userspace we have a better in
> kernel solution now - just hide the PCM from userspace entirely and
> start it like anything else in the device.  Will that not suffice?
I don't get it, I must have missed something. What do you mean by 'start 
it like anything else in the device'? Somehow userspace needs to enable 
the connection to the modem in phone use cases, if it's not done with a 
fake PCM then what is the assumption? Use a control interface?