[alsa-devel] [alsa-tools][PATCH] echomixer: obsolete usage of dimension information

[Takashi Iwai]

On Sat, 04 Nov 2017 03:28:35 +0100,
Takashi Sakamoto wrote:
> 
> In current implementation for a series of echoaudio drivers, some control
> element set delivers information to use element values for
> multi-dimensional array. Essentially, ALSA control interface of asound.h
> has no common way to parse the information. As a result, the drivers
> forces 'echomixer' application to parse the information by several ways.
> 
> This issue was reported by a commit 51db452df07b ('Revert "ALSA: echoaudio:
> purge contradictions between dimension matrix members and total number of
> members"') to Linux kernel. As a result of discussion at Linux
> miniconference 2017, usage of 'dimen' member of 'struct snd_ctl_elem_info'
> is going to be deprecated for future removal.
> 
> According to the above decision, this commit obsoletes usage of 'dimen'
> information in 'echomixer' application. In a series of echoaudio drivers,
> a control element set named as 'Channels info' includes duplicated
> information of the dimension information on value array. Additionally,
> some of dimension information have fixed values. This commit utilizes them
> to obsolete usage of dimension information.
> 
> This patch is tested with Echo Gina 3G.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi at sakamocchi.jp>

Thanks, applied.


Takashi