[linux-audio-user] Re: Gentoo: Alsa/Snd-usb-audio not working anymore

[Paul Davis]

On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 19:33 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 01:24 +0100, David Causse wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 11:39:50PM +0100, Atte André Jensen wrote:
> > > Paul Davis wrote:
> > > 
> > > >Maybe users should use names, but apps shouldn't be doing this. They
> > > >would become totally non-portable.
> > > 
> > > Well, I just rolled 2.6.18-rt7 (was on 2.6.15) and the device numbers 
> > > are completely reshuffled. I would imagine any setup that relies on the 
> > > device numbers (and not names) would be totally messed up in situations 
> > > such as these.
> > 
> > IMHO card number should be static and setup by system conf (index=xx
> > module option), that sounds much cleaner to me.
> 
> How could this possibly be cleaner or simpler than addressing devices by
> name like every other OS does?

what happens in ALSA when you install two devices of the same type?