On Thu, 02 Feb 2017 04:45:48 +0100, Takashi Sakamoto wrote: > > Hi, > > On Feb 2 2017 12:14, Satendra Singh Thakur wrote: > > From: satendra singh thakur <satendra.t@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > -Added 2 ioctls in alsa driver's control interface > > -Added an ioctl to read values of multiple elements at once > > -Added an ioctl to write values of multiple elements at once > > -In the absence of above ioctls user needs to call N ioctls to > > read/write value of N elements which requires N context switches > > -Proposed ioctls will allow accessing N elements' values in a single > > context switch > > -Above mentioned ioctl will be useful for alsa utils such as amixer > > which reads all controls of given sound card > > > > Signed-off-by: Satendra Singh Thakur <satendra.t@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > include/uapi/sound/asound.h | 8 +++++ > > sound/core/control.c | 69 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > 2 files changed, 77 insertions(+) > > I'm _strongly_ interested in your two patches, because it has a > potentiality to purge ASoC abuse of TLV feature, which was introduced > in 2014 with a bad reviewing process. I don't think it can be a replacement for the extended TLV usages. The proposed API is nothing but a loop of ctl elem read/write, and I'm not sure whether it worth to introduce the new ioctls just for that. Takashi _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
