On Mon, 2016-11-14 at 11:38 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote: > On Wed, 09 Nov 2016 15:39:26 +0100, > Tanu Kaskinen wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2016-11-08 at 15:39 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > > The simple mixer is another layer in ALSA mixer API, and actually it's > > > mandatory. So, at least, sbase plugin should be provided always when > > > alsa-lib mixer API is used. Other plugins are basically never used > > > practically. > > > > > > It doesn't matter whether to package them separately or not. The only > > > point is that sbase plugin should be available when alsa-lib mixer API > > > is used. > > > > Thanks for the explanation! If the sbase plugin is essentially a > > mandatory accompaniment of libasound, I'll move it to the libasound > > package, and since I don't see much benefit in keeping the hda and ac97 > > plugins in a separate package either, I'll move those too and get rid > > of the whole smixer plugin package. > > > > Out of curiosity, in what situation are the hda and ac97 plugins used? > > You said that they are practically never used, but surely they have > > some purpose? > > Actually, I was wrong. Even sbase.so isn't needed for the normal > alsamixer / amixer operations. This is a base shared object that is > needed for "basic" abstraction mode, but the normal mode (abstraction > "none") doesn't need it. > > That said, the whole /usr/lib*/alsa-lib/smixer/* stuff can be removed > from your package as long as the normal mode is used. > > There is an option -a to pass the abstraction level. When you pass > "basic", the python module gets loaded. It was supposed to handle the > card-specific abstraction parsed via python, but this seems currently > broken. So it's maybe safer to disable as default... Ok, thanks for the update! I see you submitted a patch that disables these plugins if Python is disabled. OpenEmbedded builds alsa-lib without Python support, so I guess these plugins won't be available to OpenEmbedded users starting from alsa-lib 1.1.3. For now there's nothing I need to change in the packaging. -- Tanu https://www.patreon.com/tanuk _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
