[Alsa-devel] [RFC] alsa integer control ranges

[Lee Revell]

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