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diff --git a/Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst b/Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst index af71c68f1e4e..829c672d9fe6 100644 --- a/Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst +++ b/Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst @@ -133,6 +133,19 @@ enable enable card; Default: enabled, for PCI and ISA PnP cards +These options are used for either specifying the order of instances or +controlling enabling and disabling of each one of the devices if there +are multiple devices bound with the same driver. For example, there are +many machines which have two HD-audio controllers (one for HDMI/DP +audio and another for onboard analog). In most cases, the second one is +in primary usage, and people would like to assign it as the first +appearing card. They can do it by specifying "index=1,0" module +parameter, which will swap the assignment slots. + +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. + Module snd-adlib ---------------- |