> For the greatest flexibility you really want the activation and > deactivation to be doable via user space - many devices (especially > complex ones like smartphones) can run with several different audio > setups and need to change between them on the fly at run time. Trying > to encode all the possible scenarios in the kernel makes for a > relatively large amount of work when there are a lot of options. (: I didn't mean to hide activation/deactivation of controls from userspace by spinning the idea of an codec instantiation but merely as a convenient base setup for devices...in fact I always prefer larger system interfaces compared to locked up ones Harry _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel