From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lee Revell Subject: Re: [RFC] alsa integer control ranges Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 10:53:05 -0400 Message-ID: <1147791186.13948.109.camel@mindpipe> References: <1147780945.29795.110.camel@johannes> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from viper.oldcity.dca.net (viper.oldcity.dca.net [216.158.38.4]) by alsa.jcu.cz (ALSA's E-mail Delivery System) with SMTP id E7964238 for ; Tue, 16 May 2006 16:53:10 +0200 (MEST) In-Reply-To: <1147780945.29795.110.camel@johannes> Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Johannes Berg Cc: ALSA development , linuxppc-dev list , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Benjamin Berg List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 14:02 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > Apparently all alsa userspace programs including alsamixer suck. Hence, > this patch is required to make them work properly. Why is it so hard to > do these additions/subtractions in the program or maybe even in the alsa > library? The alsa libraries already think they know better and mess up > all kinds of things. > > What are your opinions on this? Should this be required? And if so, why > do we even have the value.integer.min when we can't use it anyway? > > The code this patch applies against is in > http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/snd-aoa.git/ but that isn't all too > relevant, the patch serves just as an illustration of what is wrong > here. > Ummm... what problem is this patch fixing? Lee ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from viper.oldcity.dca.net (viper.oldcity.dca.net [216.158.38.4]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 122F9679E2 for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 00:59:51 +1000 (EST) Subject: Re: [Alsa-devel] [RFC] alsa integer control ranges From: Lee Revell To: Johannes Berg In-Reply-To: <1147780945.29795.110.camel@johannes> References: <1147780945.29795.110.camel@johannes> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 10:53:05 -0400 Message-Id: <1147791186.13948.109.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: linuxppc-dev list , ALSA development List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 14:02 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > Apparently all alsa userspace programs including alsamixer suck. Hence, > this patch is required to make them work properly. Why is it so hard to > do these additions/subtractions in the program or maybe even in the alsa > library? The alsa libraries already think they know better and mess up > all kinds of things. > > What are your opinions on this? Should this be required? And if so, why > do we even have the value.integer.min when we can't use it anyway? > > The code this patch applies against is in > http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/snd-aoa.git/ but that isn't all too > relevant, the patch serves just as an illustration of what is wrong > here. > Ummm... what problem is this patch fixing? Lee