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.

Richard.


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