Date:        Tue, 7 Oct 2003 23:29:37 +0200
    From:        Quentin Garnier <netbsd@quatriemek.com>
    Message-ID:  <20031007232937.0005f07f.netbsd@quatriemek.com>

  | 4. Adding the Linux and FreeBSD scheme to our mixer driver. This might be
  | the best (err, less worse) solution (although Lennart and David might
  | simply not like it ;), but this is not necessarily easy given our current
  | architecture.

This is the right way to do it.   One of the roles of the OS is to hide
dumb hardware design issues from the majority of applications that don't
want to, and don't need to, understand any of this stuff.

The real hardware granularity and range ought be available for those
applications that really want to know - but nothing should be forced to
care about that if it doesn't want to.

kre