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From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
To: Tobias Schneider <tobsnyder@gmx.de>
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Subject: Re: ALSA Control Questions (atomicity, error handling)
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:33:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B19018D.4040000@ladisch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B18D6DA.6070809@gmx.de>

Tobias Schneider wrote:
> Another point: I figured out that the "ALSA middlelayer" seems to filter
> the given values of a control. So if the user sets value=1000 where
> maximum is 10, I will get 10 instead of 1000 in the put callback...so
> it's not necessary to check values in those callbacks,

It is, because it is possible to use low-level ALSA functions or to call
the IOCTLs directly, and in this way arbitrary values can reach your
driver's put callback.


Best regards,
Clemens

      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-12-04 12:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-03 18:30 ALSA Control Questions Tobias Schneider
2009-12-03 19:50 ` Daniel Mack
2009-12-04  9:31   ` ALSA Control Questions (atomicity, error handling) Tobias Schneider
2009-12-04 11:27     ` Daniel Mack
2009-12-04 11:34     ` Daniel Mack
2009-12-04 12:02       ` Tobias Schneider
2009-12-04 12:06         ` Daniel Mack
2009-12-04 12:33     ` Clemens Ladisch [this message]

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