[alsa-devel] [PATCH - alsa-lib 2/3] tlv: Handle 'holes' in SND_CTL_TLVT_DB_RANGE array

[Mark Brown]

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 08:25:00AM +0200, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> Takashi Iwai wrote:

> > Well, what I don't feel right is that this breaks the simpleness of
> > DB_RANGE handling.  It's just damn simple, and works as long as the
> > target point is covered by defined ranges.  If something is wrong,
> > it's the definition, not the parser.  That's why I wondered first
> > whether it can't be fixed in the driver side.

> As a driver writer, I would intuitively assume that the ranges must
> not be overlapping.  If we require all drivers to get this right,
> there will likely be new ones that don't.

This is exactly what happened with all the ASoC drivers - it never even
occurred to me that it might be sensible to overlap the ranges.  It's
not at all obvious, like I've said the drivers are basically providing a
data table.