On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Takashi Iwai wrote:

> > I have plans to extend the mixer interface to pass (and handle) the dB
> > resolution. But it will be done completely in the user space. The alsa-lib
> > will analyze information from the driver (hardware components) and then it
> > will use a predefined expressions for these transformations. I think that
> > we should not polute the kernel space with these "additional" things.
>
> agreed.  it's a user-space thing.
>
> but some additional information like min/max dB would be needed, too?

I think that we can have this database (including expressions which
converts hardware range to the dB range) in alsa-lib, too. It was one of
reasons why I am working on the lisp integration to alsa-lib, because we
can easy describe mathematic expressions with this language.

                                                Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, SuSE Labs


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