On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 12:00:54PM +0200, David Henningsson wrote: > On 10/14/2011 11:39 AM, Mark Brown wrote: > >On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 10:57:08AM +0200, David Henningsson wrote: > >>As for ports, this again depends on what is mutually exclusive and > >>what could be used in parallel, I vaguely remember "Modifiers" as > >>something that could be used in parallel with existing streams, if > >>so, they need to be separate sinks/sources. > >Modifiers and Devices can both be used concurrently. > Modifiers, if any? E g, would UCM allow for three active Devices and > four active Modifiers, all resulting in seven independent PCM > streams running concurrently? Or are there constraints in that e g > all Devices and/or Modifiers must share the same PCM stream? There can be more than one PCM stream but there needn't be a PCM stream per device (and that would fail to reflect what hardware can actually implement).