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[2003:c6:5f1d:6aa7:fd15:24d9:ec62:63af]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id ffacd0b85a97d-439fe1b287dsm18811273f8f.17.2026.03.13.12.01.57 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:01:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Myroslav Demchenko To: perex@perex.cz, tiwai@suse.com Cc: corbet@lwn.net, skhan@linuxfoundation.org, linux-sound@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mirademche@gmail.com, Myroslav Demchenko Subject: [PATCH] docs: sound: clarify PulseAudio and PipeWire configuration description Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:01:40 +0100 Message-ID: <20260313120140.45022-1-myro@myromyro.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.53.0 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Modern sound servers such as PulseAudio and PipeWire support dynamic configuration, so this feature is rarely needed today. However, it was useful in the past when audio setups relied on static configuration. Signed-off-by: Myroslav Demchenko --- Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst b/Documentation/sou= nd/alsa-configuration.rst index 55b845d38236..a3d8da5a3f6c 100644 --- a/Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst +++ b/Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst @@ -142,9 +142,9 @@ in primary usage, and people would like to assign it as= the first appearing card. They can do it by specifying "index=3D1,0" module parameter, which will swap the assignment slots. =20 -Today, with the sound backend like PulseAudio and PipeWire which -supports dynamic configuration, it's of little use, but that was a -help for static configuration in the past. +Today, sound servers such as PulseAudio and PipeWire support dynamic +configuration, so this feature is rarely needed. However, it was +useful in the past when audio setups relied on static configuration. =20 Module snd-adlib ---------------- --=20 2.53.0