[alsa-devel] [PATCH v4 3/7] ASoC: da7210: Add support for mute and zero cross controls

[Ashish Chavan]

On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 13:55 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 06:30:28PM +0530, Ashish Chavan wrote:
> 
> > > Eh?  One is a Volume, the other is a Switch.  Note that alsamixer does
> > > render the two stacked on top of each other in the UI.
> 
> > Yes, I guessed that earlier. Anyways I generally don't rely on alsamixer
> > and use amixer whereever possible. In amixer also, it shows only one
> > control, the one that I add first. If I change "Mic" to some thing else
> > like "MicM" or "Mic Mute", then it shows both controls.
> 
> Check again, amixer also merges controls.
> 
Yes, you are right.

> > BTW does amixer version have any significance here? I know my alsa-utils
> > are quite old (1.0.14)
> 
> That's spectacularly old, I guess it's possible it's buggy.
> 
I see, thanks. I will update it to my earliest convenience. As of now, I
will go forward in submitting the patches.