linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1] ASoC: ops: Fix integer detection for when max possible values

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Message-Id: <165550798591.994018.15249156290558800333.b4-ty@kernel.org>
Date:   Sat, 18 Jun 2022 00:19:45 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     sbinding@...nsource.cirrus.com, lgirdwood@...il.com
Cc:     alsa-devel@...a-project.org, patches@...nsource.cirrus.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] ASoC: ops: Fix integer detection for when max possible values > 1

On Fri, 17 Jun 2022 16:36:06 +0100, Stefan Binding wrote:
> The standard snd_soc_info_volsw() allows a two value control to be
> defined as an integer control only if the control name ends in
> "Volume". It achieves this by creating a substring if it contains
> " Volume", and ensuring this exists at the end of the name. The
> volume substring is then used to decide whether the type is a
> SNDRV_CTL_ELEM_TYPE_INTEGER or SNDRV_CTL_ELEM_TYPE_BOOLEAN.
> However this volume substring is only computed for a two value
> control.
> This means for controls where there are more than two possible
> values, the substring is never created, so in this case the
> substring remains NULL, and the condition yields
> SNDRV_CTL_ELEM_TYPE_BOOLEAN, even though there are more than 2
> possible values.
> If there are more than 2 possible values for the control,
> then it should always be an integer control.
> 
> [...]

Applied to

   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound.git for-next

Thanks!

[1/1] ASoC: ops: Fix integer detection for when max possible values > 1
      commit: 442302003bd2b151e12d52b0af9a7dac131bf931

All being well this means that it will be integrated into the linux-next
tree (usually sometime in the next 24 hours) and sent to Linus during
the next merge window (or sooner if it is a bug fix), however if
problems are discovered then the patch may be dropped or reverted.

You may get further e-mails resulting from automated or manual testing
and review of the tree, please engage with people reporting problems and
send followup patches addressing any issues that are reported if needed.

If any updates are required or you are submitting further changes they
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patches will not be replaced.

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Thanks,
Mark