[alsa-devel] Removal of indirect access in control API

[Jaroslav Kysela]

On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Takashi Iwai wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> ALSA control elements have "indirect" flag, which is supposed to allow
> the indirect access via pointer.  But, as far as I know, this feature
> has never been used nor implemented, and unsupported via 32/64bit
> compat layer.
> 
> So, I'd like to get rid of this now.  The clean-up patch is below.
> 
> If you have objections, please let me know.

I have objection. This layer was designed to support large mixer matrixes 
like in the HDSPM driver (and if I remember correctly - implementation was 
started after discussion with authors of RME drviers). HDSPM driver uses 
hwdep interface now (probably because it was ported from the OSS code).
I think that it would be worth to use standard ALSA control interface to 
track changes thus to finish indirect interface.

Which problems are with the 32/64 bit conversion layer? I suppose that it 
is possible to write an ioctl converters.

					Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <perex at perex.cz>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project