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r: 132742
b: refs/heads/master
c: 79c7cdd
h: refs/heads/master
v: v3

[refs]

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: f5b1db634280ecaf3147ee996f26aad0ed4828c4
+refs/heads/master: 79c7cdd5441f5d3900c1632adcc8cd2bee35c8da

trunk/Documentation/sound/alsa/DocBook/alsa-driver-api.tmpl

@@ -71,6 +71,10 @@
 !Esound/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c
 !Esound/pci/ac97/ac97_pcm.c
      </sect1>
+     <sect1><title>Virtual Master Control API</title>
+!Esound/core/vmaster.c
+!Iinclude/sound/control.h
+     </sect1>
   </chapter>
   <chapter><title>MIDI API</title>
      <sect1><title>Raw MIDI API</title>

trunk/include/sound/control.h

@@ -176,12 +176,44 @@ int _snd_ctl_add_slave(struct snd_kcontrol *master, struct snd_kcontrol *slave,
 /* optional flags for slave */
 #define SND_CTL_SLAVE_NEED_UPDATE	(1 << 0)
 
+/**
+ * snd_ctl_add_slave - Add a virtual slave control
+ * @master: vmaster element
+ * @slave: slave element to add
+ *
+ * Add a virtual slave control to the given master element created via
+ * snd_ctl_create_virtual_master() beforehand.
+ * Returns zero if successful or a negative error code.
+ *
+ * All slaves must be the same type (returning the same information
+ * via info callback).  The fucntion doesn't check it, so it's your
+ * responsibility.
+ *
+ * Also, some additional limitations:
+ * at most two channels,
+ * logarithmic volume control (dB level) thus no linear volume,
+ * master can only attenuate the volume without gain
+ */
 static inline int
 snd_ctl_add_slave(struct snd_kcontrol *master, struct snd_kcontrol *slave)
 {
 	return _snd_ctl_add_slave(master, slave, 0);
 }
 
+/**
+ * snd_ctl_add_slave_uncached - Add a virtual slave control
+ * @master: vmaster element
+ * @slave: slave element to add
+ *
+ * Add a virtual slave control to the given master.
+ * Unlike snd_ctl_add_slave(), the element added via this function
+ * is supposed to have volatile values, and get callback is called
+ * at each time quried from the master.
+ *
+ * When the control peeks the hardware values directly and the value
+ * can be changed by other means than the put callback of the element,
+ * this function should be used to keep the value always up-to-date.
+ */
 static inline int
 snd_ctl_add_slave_uncached(struct snd_kcontrol *master,
 			   struct snd_kcontrol *slave)

trunk/sound/core/vmaster.c

@@ -340,8 +340,20 @@ static void master_free(struct snd_kcontrol *kcontrol)
 }
 
 
-/*
- * Create a virtual master control with the given name
+/**
+ * snd_ctl_make_virtual_master - Create a virtual master control
+ * @name: name string of the control element to create
+ * @tlv: optional TLV int array for dB information
+ *
+ * Creates a virtual matster control with the given name string.
+ * Returns the created control element, or NULL for errors (ENOMEM).
+ *
+ * After creating a vmaster element, you can add the slave controls
+ * via snd_ctl_add_slave() or snd_ctl_add_slave_uncached().
+ *
+ * The optional argument @tlv can be used to specify the TLV information
+ * for dB scale of the master control.  It should be a single element
+ * with #SNDRV_CTL_TLVT_DB_SCALE type, and should be the max 0dB.
  */
 struct snd_kcontrol *snd_ctl_make_virtual_master(char *name,
 						 const unsigned int *tlv)