audio/4.0/IDevicesFactory.hal

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package android.hardware.audio@4.0;

import android.hardware.audio.common@4.0;
import IDevice;

/** 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 exceptions:
 *  - the "primary" device must always be present and is the device used by the telephony framework.
 *  - 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.
 *
 *  Note that on AOSP Oreo (including MR1) the "a2dp" module is not using this API
 *  but is loaded directly from the system partition using the legacy API
 *  due to limitations with the Bluetooth framework.
 */
interface IDevicesFactory {

    /**
     * Opens an audio device. To close the device, it is necessary to release
     * references to the returned device object.
     *
     * @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 occured while opening the hardware
     *         module.
     * @return result the interface for the created device.
     */
    openDevice(string device) generates (Result retval, IDevice result);
};