maestro3 hardware volume control

[Pyun YongHyeon]

On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 09:09:30AM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
 > Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
 > >Hi,
 > >
 > >I noticed hardware volume control of maestro3 didn't work.  With
 > >small patch it worked on my system(Gateway Solo 5300).
 > >
 > >Hardware volume control of maestro3 can be configured with two
 > >different control pins. Unfortunately it seems that it's hard to
 > >know which control pin was wired to control the volume.
 > >At present maestro3 provides a way via hint file to select one of
 > >the two configurations.
 > >
 > >hint.pcm.0.hwvol_config="0" : select GD(game port interface) pin 6, 7
 > >hint.pcm.0.hwvol_config="1" : select GPIO pin 4,5
 > >If there is no hint the driver select GD pin 6, 7.
 > >
 > >In my system selecting GD pins didn't work and a comment at the
 > >beginning of the driver source indicates it didn't ever work. So I'd
 > >like to change to select GPIO pins as a default hardware volume
 > >control. For users needs to select GD pins it could be easily done
 > >with hint.pcm.0.hwvol_config="0" in /boot/device.hints file.
 > >But I think there are no such users since device.hints file had no
 > >such entry.
 > >
 > 
 > I believe that the source comment was out of date.  It certainly worked

Thanks for clarifying that.
 > when I wrote the code (see rev 1.11).  However, you're doing a much 
 > better job of maintaining this driver than I, so you're welcome to
 > change it as you see fit.  Make sure that it gets documented, though.
 > 

Since there are systems that work with current driver's behavior
I wouldn't change the driver. But I'll update document.

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Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon
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