Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] [PATCH] thinkpad-acpi: fix return value of volume callbacks

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>]

On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> > > ALSA sends notifications to all mixer application when the value of
> > > any mixer control has changed.  To be able to avoid sending them for
> > > controls that did not actually change, it uses the return value of the
> > > .put callback: 0 means the control value did not change; 1 means it has
> > > changed (or might have changed), and a notification is to be sent.
> > > <http://www.alsa-project.org/~tiwai/writing-an-alsa-driver/ch06s05.html#control-interface-callbacks-put>
> > 
> > I am looking at it.  I think I had it like that on purpose, to trigger an
> > OSD when a volume-related hotkey is pressed even if it doesn't change the
> > state (mute when already mute, vol down when already at minimum, etc).
> 
> This is not about changes initiated by key presses but changes made
> through the ALSA mixer API.  Or does the hardware generate a hotkey
> event when software changes the volume?

The firmware doesn't send events for software changes, mostly because it
does not want, or, expect any.  These mixers are read-only by default.

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