[RFC PATCH 1/3] ALSA: control: add kcontrol_type to control

[Jaroslav Kysela]

Dne 08. 01. 21 v 12:23 Jaska Uimonen napsal(a):
> Current kcontrol structs don't have a member to describe the control
> type. The type is present in the widget which contains the control. As
> there can be many controls in one widget it is inherently presumed that
> the control types are the same.
> 
> Lately there has been use cases where different types of controls would
> be needed for single widget. Thus enable this by adding the control type
> to kcontrol and kcontrol_new structs.

It looks like a SoC only extension. Use private_data to carry this
information. It has no value for the toplevel code.

				Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <perex at perex.cz>
Linux Sound Maintainer; ALSA Project; Red Hat, Inc.