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

[Takashi Iwai]

At Wed, 17 May 2006 08:04:18 +1000,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
> 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 :(

Well that's a big dilemma.  Surely you want a stable driver and don't
want to see the flood of bug reports.

The mixer stuff is the weakest point in the current ALSA
implementation, and it has to be sorted out better.
Almost all existing mixer GUI programs are more or less buggy or quite
user-unfriendly.


Takashi