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On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 10:04 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 15:38 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
> > There is still an issue... wether to enable softvol or not... With
> > snd-aoa, the card name is always the same but wether it has hardware
> > volume control or not (Toonie doesn't) is not known... Alsa should have
> > ways to add softvol automatically if no master volume control exist.
> 
> Hm, good point. I probably need to completely revamp the card handling
> and not create a card object before the codecs are registered. That way,
> I could influence the naming through the codecs.

Maybe ... or not... I'd rather not bother. I think Alsa should be able
to create softvol if there is no Master volume...

Ben.