On Tue, 12 May 2009, Lennart Poettering wrote: > Hmm? The first thing snd_pcm_hw_open() does is calling > snd_ctl_hw_open(). So with your code, the name will bre resolved and > the ctl device opened and closed for that. And then shortly after the > device will be reopened right-away and then kept open. In my code > after the resolving I'd just keep the device open. > > Your code requires three open()s for this, mine required two. I see your point now - I forgot that control API is used to prefer subdevices. But it would be better to add some cache for ctl opens in alsa-lib rather than abusing other levels of API with additional information. Thanks, Jaroslav ----- Jaroslav Kysela <perex@xxxxxxxx> Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer ALSA Project, Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel