1<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><title>snd_ctl_remove</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.78.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="The ALSA Driver API"><link rel="up" href="ch03.html#id-1.5.2" title="General Control Interface"><link rel="prev" href="API-snd-ctl-replace.html" title="snd_ctl_replace"><link rel="next" href="API-snd-ctl-remove-id.html" title="snd_ctl_remove_id"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center"><span class="phrase">snd_ctl_remove</span></th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="API-snd-ctl-replace.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">General Control Interface</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="API-snd-ctl-remove-id.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="refentry"><a name="API-snd-ctl-remove"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>snd_ctl_remove — 
2     remove the control from the card and release it
3 </p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="funcsynopsis"><table border="0" class="funcprototype-table" summary="Function synopsis" style="cellspacing: 0; cellpadding: 0;"><tr><td><code class="funcdef">int <b class="fsfunc">snd_ctl_remove </b>(</code></td><td>struct snd_card * <var class="pdparam">card</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>struct snd_kcontrol * <var class="pdparam">kcontrol</var><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer"> </div></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="id-1.5.2.7.5"></a><h2>Arguments</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl class="variablelist"><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>card</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
4     the card instance
5    </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>kcontrol</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
6     the control instance to remove
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8   Removes the control from the card and then releases the instance.
9   You don't need to call <code class="function"><a class="link" href="API-snd-ctl-free-one.html" title="snd_ctl_free_one">snd_ctl_free_one</a></code>. You must be in
10   the write lock - down_write(<span class="structname">card</span>-&gt;controls_rwsem).
11</p></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="id-1.5.2.7.7"></a><h2>Return</h2><p>
12   0 if successful, or a negative error code on failure.
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