At Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:20:28 +0100, Thierry Vignaud wrote:

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de writes:

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changeset: 2374:d0e6c6e079eb user: tiwai date: Tue Jan 08 18:34:36 2008 +0100 files: include/sound/asound.h src/control/control.c description: Remove indirect control access

The indirect control access is removed from the kernel. This patch cleans the corresponding alsa-lib part.

Shouldn't this be kept for compatibility with older kernels? Eg: if someone update distro foobar from version X to version Y, he usually can boot either the old kernel from X or the new one from Y.

With such a change, booting the older kernel would result in missing features, wouldn't it?

This feature isn't really implemented in alsa-lib API, too. So, you couldn't use this feature anyway.

Takashi