Hi,

I'm using the alsa driver built-in to the linux-2.6.23.9 kernel for the VIA VT1724 (linux/sound/pci/ice1712/ice1724.c) audio controller. The controller has 5 playback DMA and 2 record DMA channels. Out of the 5 playback DMA channels, first 4 channels can be used in interleaved mode or as 4 independent stereo channels. As studied from the driver, it is creating 3 snd_pcm_hw structrues, namely,

static const struct snd_pcm_hardware snd_vt1724_playback_pro =
{
.info = (SNDRV_PCM_INFO_MMAP | SNDRV_PCM_INFO_INTERLEAVED |
SNDRV_PCM_INFO_BLOCK_TRANSFER |
SNDRV_PCM_INFO_MMAP_VALID |
SNDRV_PCM_INFO_PAUSE | SNDRV_PCM_INFO_SYNC_START),
.formats = SNDRV_PCM_FMTBIT_S32_LE,
.rates = SNDRV_PCM_RATE_KNOT | SNDRV_PCM_RATE_8000_192000,
.rate_min = 8000,
.rate_max = 192000,
.channels_min = 2,
.channels_max = 8,
.buffer_bytes_max = (1UL << 21), /* 19bits dword */
.period_bytes_min = 8 * 4 * 2, /* FIXME: constraints needed */
.period_bytes_max = (1UL << 21),
.periods_min = 2,
.periods_max = 1024,
};


static const struct snd_pcm_hardware snd_vt1724_spdif =
{
.info = (SNDRV_PCM_INFO_MMAP | SNDRV_PCM_INFO_INTERLEAVED |
SNDRV_PCM_INFO_BLOCK_TRANSFER |
SNDRV_PCM_INFO_MMAP_VALID |
SNDRV_PCM_INFO_PAUSE | SNDRV_PCM_INFO_SYNC_START),
.formats = SNDRV_PCM_FMTBIT_S32_LE,
.rates = (SNDRV_PCM_RATE_32000|SNDRV_PCM_RATE_44100|
SNDRV_PCM_RATE_48000|SNDRV_PCM_RATE_88200|
SNDRV_PCM_RATE_96000|SNDRV_PCM_RATE_176400|
SNDRV_PCM_RATE_192000),
.rate_min = 32000,
.rate_max = 192000,
.channels_min = 2,
.channels_max = 2,
.buffer_bytes_max = (1UL << 18), /* 16bits dword */
.period_bytes_min = 2 * 4 * 2,
.period_bytes_max = (1UL << 18),
.periods_min = 2,
.periods_max = 1024,
};

static const struct snd_pcm_hardware snd_vt1724_2ch_stereo =
{
.info = (SNDRV_PCM_INFO_MMAP | SNDRV_PCM_INFO_INTERLEAVED |
SNDRV_PCM_INFO_BLOCK_TRANSFER |
SNDRV_PCM_INFO_MMAP_VALID |
SNDRV_PCM_INFO_PAUSE | SNDRV_PCM_INFO_SYNC_START),
.formats = SNDRV_PCM_FMTBIT_S32_LE,
.rates = SNDRV_PCM_RATE_KNOT | SNDRV_PCM_RATE_8000_192000,
.rate_min = 8000,
.rate_max = 192000,
.channels_min = 2,
.channels_max = 2,
.buffer_bytes_max = (1UL << 18), /* 16bits dword */
.period_bytes_min = 2 * 4 * 2,
.period_bytes_max = (1UL << 18),
.periods_min = 2,
.periods_max = 1024,
};

When the kernel is built and run, the alsa driver has created to two audio device nodes: /dev/dsp and /dev/audio. There are even no extra nodes like /dev/dsp1, /dev/dsp2, etc.

I want to open each [Playback/Record]DMA channel independently.
Any help ?