On Fri, Jul 03, 2020 at 09:34:20AM +0900, Takashi Sakamoto wrote: > > My questions: > > 1) Are name and index enough to identify an element? > > In ALSA control core, 'snd_ctl_find_id()' helper function[1] is used to > find control element set by the given information from userspace > application. You can see the algorithm supports two cases: > > 1. numid matching > 2. the combination matching with: > * iface > * device > * subdevice > * name > * index is within the range of set I sent PR[1] to update the documentation in alsa-lib. [1] https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-lib/pull/66 Regards Takashi Sakamoto