[alsa-devel] [PATCH 1/2 v2] ALSA: Add snd_ctl_update() to dynamically update a control

[Raymond Yau]

2011/3/16 Dimitris Papastamos <dp at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>

> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 03:17:58PM +0100, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
>
>
> > > A separate patch needs to be made to make ALSA Mixer cope with this.
> >
> > What happens?
>
> It doesn't break or anything hopefully.  It will probably need support for
> handling the update of the controls (without exiting and starting it
> again).  I've only tested it against alsa-utils 1.0.20 and it worked
> fine with a few changes (updating the controls on the fly).
>
>
It depend on how the driver update control, since snd_mixer_selem just
combine "volume" and "switch" controls of same name into a single selem

if the driver just change the name of volume control, I guess alsamixer
still need to reload the mixer