About integer64

[Abramo Bagnara <abramo@alsa-project.org>]

I don't think that's a bad thing to have support for 64 bit integers
(perhaps for future use, who knows), but I think that to use this to
store a fixed point float is a big mistake.

If you think for it you realize that it's *not* an integer and
applications are betrayed in their expectation.

I see two possible solutions:
1) convert internal representation to float (or double) and add support
for this type of data
2) use SNDRV_CTL_ELEM_TYPE_BYTES

As I've already said I prefer 1) but too 2) is far better that to have a
wrong use of a data type.

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