Subject: Re: [Alsa-devel] [RFC] alsa integer control ranges

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 08:04:18 +1000

On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 14:31 +0200, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> On Tue, 16 May 2006, 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.
> 
> It's better to fix apps, if they are broken.

Problem is, they are currently all broken (pretty much) and thus unless
we want to release a driver that won't work with any current distros,
we'll have to whack the ranges :(

Ben.