[PATCH alsa-lib v2 0/3] mixer: Volume control fixes

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 3/5/21 10:57 AM, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> Dne 04. 03. 21 v 22:50 Hans de Goede napsal(a):
>> Hi All,
>>
>> On 2/28/21 5:13 PM, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> Here is v2 of my series of alsa-lib volume-control fixes which I wrote
>>> while working on adding hw-volume control to UCM profiles for various
>>> x86 ASoC setups.
>>>
>>> New in v2 is adding an extra entry to the capture_volume_names array
>>> for the "ADC PGA Gain Volume" control used in the es8316 codec driver
>>> in patch 3/3.
>>>
>>> Note that patch 3/3 is not strictly necessary to make hw-volume control
>>> work. At least the PA hw-vol-control code does not care if the controls
>>> are wronly marked as global-volume-controls instead of
>>> capture-volume-controls. I mostly wrote patch 3/3 because for
>>> correctness reasons, so if it is deemed controversial we can drop it.
>>
>> Self-nack, I have some plans to make this more generic and I found
>> another set of control-names which need special handling (which is
>> the motivation to make the exception mechanism more generic).
> 
> I think that we should put the exceptions to a configuration file per driver,
> but I haven't a time to propose a complete solution.

Yes that would be ideal. But I don't have the time for that either.

What I do have in mind should be able to serve as a basis for that.

> BTW: The first patch looks really straight, so I have a plan to merge it.

That is fine, my planned re-write of this patch-set starts at patch 2   :)

Regards,

Hans