Re: nvram polling for hardware mixer

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On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 23:58 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been hacking to make the nvram hardware buttons on thinkpad exposed
> as a hardware mixer device. This requires the nvram to be polled in
> kernel space, and then examined to see if the volume and mute status has
> changed. I have attached code to export a simple mono tuner, but this
> needs further testing and integration. I've also prepared a preliminary
> patch to add the polling to the thinkpad_acpi driver.
> 
> Please review, and make sure I'm on the right lines. I also can't see
> the input patches in the ibm-acpi-2.6 tree, so I've done this against
> linus. This isn't for merging, it's just a preview for comments.

I'm thinking.

Why is defining a _new_ device with its own mixer a good idea? Isn't it
actually supposed to be a track in the builtin ALSA device instead? And
then we'd get feedback from that one...

-- 
Bastien Nocera <hadess@xxxxxxxxxx> 


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