Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2021 13:37:51 -0700 From: Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com> To: Christos Margiolis <christos@margiolis.net> Cc: Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, "<dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org>" <dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org>, "dev-commits-src-main@FreeBSD.org" <dev-commits-src-main@freebsd.org>, Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org> Subject: Re: git: 903873ce1560 - main - Implement and use new mixer(3) library for FreeBSD. Message-ID: <CAK7dMtBAaeKSWxvO_6OdCZbvF0ayekb0neUnge9JTwzLfG5T=Q@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20211004101726.wraje5ol5vwbhjcv@pleb> References: <202109221803.18MI3gdA013391@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <3d6a23c3-ad2c-4c5b-849e-1ef12dbf8955@FreeBSD.org> <487fa0f2-d845-438f-a035-8b7ccba4285a@selasky.org> <e48b1538-db29-50a4-9cf2-57615144132d@FreeBSD.org> <20211004101726.wraje5ol5vwbhjcv@pleb>
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On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 3:17 AM Christos Margiolis <christos@margiolis.net> wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 04, 2021 at 10:48:03AM +0200, Mateusz Piotrowski wrote: > > Hmm, I agree that mute and volume controls in the new CLI interface are very > > consistent. However, in case of the old CLI interface, the mute > > functionality could also be added without a problem (at least by looking at > > the manual pages, the "mute" command could look like this: "mixer mute > > vol"). My point is that I feel that the CLI interface should be > > backwards-compatible in this case. > > I think the new interface is more readable and extensible than the old > one, and, as you mentioned, mixer(8) did need an upgrade, so it might be > better to have it changed from now on and keep the old version as a port, > than to keep working on an -- in my opinion -- obsolete interface and code. > > > > Would it help to make a port, like "oldmixer", under "audio" ? > > > > That's a good idea. I've committed the "old" mixer to the ports tree: https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=e9a0efe4509b8dbdef0b4e4b5b94abf0aebd78a9. > > Yeap, that's a good idea indeed. I still get a bunch of spam from rc.d on boot and it doesn't seem to save my mixer settings on shutdown, is there some settings file I should blow away or is there a better way to handle upgrades? > -- > Christos > _______________________________________________ > dev-commits-src-main@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/dev-commits-src-main > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "dev-commits-src-main-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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