[RFC] alsa integer control ranges

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

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.

Thanks,
johannes

--- snd-aoa.orig/aoa/codecs/onyx/snd-aoa-codec-onyx.c	2006-05-16 12:13:39.663950213 +0200
+++ snd-aoa/aoa/codecs/onyx/snd-aoa-codec-onyx.c	2006-05-16 12:14:13.698643898 +0200
@@ -102,8 +102,8 @@ static int onyx_snd_vol_info(struct snd_
 {
 	uinfo->type = SNDRV_CTL_ELEM_TYPE_INTEGER;
 	uinfo->count = 2;
-	uinfo->value.integer.min = -128;
-	uinfo->value.integer.max = -1;
+	uinfo->value.integer.min = -128+128;
+	uinfo->value.integer.max = -1+128;
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -115,8 +115,8 @@ static int onyx_snd_vol_get(struct snd_k
 
 	onyx_read_register(onyx, ONYX_REG_DAC_ATTEN_LEFT, &l);
 	onyx_read_register(onyx, ONYX_REG_DAC_ATTEN_RIGHT, &r);
-	ucontrol->value.integer.value[0] = l;
-	ucontrol->value.integer.value[1] = r;
+	ucontrol->value.integer.value[0] = l+128;
+	ucontrol->value.integer.value[1] = r+128;
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -125,8 +125,8 @@ static int onyx_snd_vol_put(struct snd_k
 {
 	struct onyx *onyx = snd_kcontrol_chip(kcontrol);
 
-	onyx_write_register(onyx, ONYX_REG_DAC_ATTEN_LEFT, ucontrol->value.integer.value[0]);
-	onyx_write_register(onyx, ONYX_REG_DAC_ATTEN_RIGHT, ucontrol->value.integer.value[1]);
+	onyx_write_register(onyx, ONYX_REG_DAC_ATTEN_LEFT, ucontrol->value.integer.value[0]-128);
+	onyx_write_register(onyx, ONYX_REG_DAC_ATTEN_RIGHT, ucontrol->value.integer.value[1]-128);
 	/* FIXME: we could be checking if anything changed */
 	return 1;
 }
@@ -145,8 +145,8 @@ static int onyx_snd_inputgain_info(struc
 {
 	uinfo->type = SNDRV_CTL_ELEM_TYPE_INTEGER;
 	uinfo->count = 1;
-	uinfo->value.integer.min = 3;
-	uinfo->value.integer.max = 28;
+	uinfo->value.integer.min = 3-3;
+	uinfo->value.integer.max = 28-3;
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ static int onyx_snd_inputgain_get(struct
 	u8 ig;
 
 	onyx_read_register(onyx, ONYX_REG_ADC_CONTROL, &ig);
-	ucontrol->value.integer.value[0] = ig & ONYX_ADC_PGA_GAIN_MASK;
+	ucontrol->value.integer.value[0] = (ig & ONYX_ADC_PGA_GAIN_MASK)-3;
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ static int onyx_snd_inputgain_put(struct
 
 	onyx_read_register(onyx, ONYX_REG_ADC_CONTROL, &val);
 	val &= ~ONYX_ADC_PGA_GAIN_MASK;
-	val |= ucontrol->value.integer.value[0] & ONYX_ADC_PGA_GAIN_MASK;
+	val |= (ucontrol->value.integer.value[0]+3) & ONYX_ADC_PGA_GAIN_MASK;
 	onyx_write_register(onyx, ONYX_REG_ADC_CONTROL, val);
 	return 1;
 }