On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 18:45 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 29 May 2007, Richard Hughes wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 22:11 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > > > 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. > > > 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... > > > > It is a _physically_ separate mixer - i.e. independent from the built-in > > ALSA device. It's just unusual hardware. Also IMO it would be impossible > > to link the nvram polling with another master volume on the main mixer > > in the thinkpad_acpi code. > > And it also has weird behaviour if you have sound taps in weird places, e.g. > the ones in port replicators for the T4x series. They are not under control > of the thinkpad mixer, but they are under full control of the AC97 mixer. > > As Richard just said, it *really* is a separate device, and we shall export > it as such. Ha, the fact that it was a completely separate device wasn't clear to me. I guess that's that settled. Keep on hacking Richard! Cheers :) -- Bastien Nocera <hadess@xxxxxxxxxx> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ ibm-acpi-devel mailing list ibm-acpi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ibm-acpi-devel
