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Subject: Re: [Alsa-devel] [RFC] alsa integer control ranges
From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 10:53:05 -0400
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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