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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2022 The Android Open Source Project
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package android.hardware.audio@7.1;
+
+import @7.0::IDevicesFactory;
+import @7.0::Result;
+import IDevice;
+import IPrimaryDevice;
+
+/**
+ * This factory allows a HAL implementation to be split in multiple independent
+ * devices (called module in the pre-treble API). Note that this division is
+ * arbitrary and implementation are free to only have a Primary. The framework
+ * will query the devices according to audio_policy_configuration.xml
+ *
+ * Each device name is arbitrary, provided by the vendor's audio_policy_configuration.xml
+ * and only used to identify a device in this factory.
+ * The framework must not interpret the name, treating it as a vendor opaque data
+ * with the following exception:
+ * - the "r_submix" device that must be present to support policyMixes (Eg: Android projected).
+ *   Note that this Device is included by default in a build derived from AOSP.
+ */
+interface IDevicesFactory extends @7.0::IDevicesFactory {
+
+    /**
+     * Opens an audio device. To close the device, it is necessary to call
+     * 'close' method on the returned device object.
+     *
+     * Important note: due to rules of HIDL, @7.1::IPrimaryDevice extends
+     * @7.0::IPrimaryDevice, rather than @7.1::IDevice. Thus the returned
+     * IDevice interface can not be up-casted to @7.1::IPrimaryDevice for the
+     * primary device. The client needs to use IPrimaryDevice instead of this
+     * method if it needs full functionality of the IPrimaryDevice interface.
+     *
+     * @param device device name.
+     * @return retval operation completion status. Returns INVALID_ARGUMENTS
+     *         if there is no corresponding hardware module found,
+     *         NOT_INITIALIZED if an error occurred while opening the hardware
+     *         module.
+     * @return result the interface for the created device.
+     */
+    openDevice_7_1(string device) generates (Result retval, IDevice result);
+
+    /**
+     * Opens the Primary audio device that must be present.
+     * This function is not optional and must return successfully the primary device.
+     *
+     * This device must have the name "primary".
+     *
+     * The telephony stack uses this device to control the audio during a voice call.
+     *
+     * @return retval operation completion status. Must be SUCCESS.
+     *         For debugging, return INVALID_ARGUMENTS if there is no corresponding
+     *         hardware module found, NOT_INITIALIZED if an error occurred
+     *         while opening the hardware module.
+     * @return result the interface for the created device.
+     */
+    openPrimaryDevice_7_1() generates (Result retval, IPrimaryDevice result);
+};