From bb48f095320da6e0a71bc18729b8324924dd9bdb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: wm4 <wm4@nowhere>
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2016 01:17:12 +0100
Subject: options: clarify --softvol deprecation message and manpage entry

People seem to think that the softvol behavior is deprecated, but what
is deprecated is actually disabling softvol.
---
 options/options.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'options')

diff --git a/options/options.c b/options/options.c
index e4c682303b..442c29297a 100644
--- a/options/options.c
+++ b/options/options.c
@@ -525,7 +525,8 @@ const m_option_t mp_opts[] = {
                ({"no", SOFTVOL_NO},
                 {"yes", SOFTVOL_YES},
                 {"auto", SOFTVOL_AUTO}),
-               .deprecation_message = "no replacement"),
+               .deprecation_message = "softvol is always active, and behaves "
+                                      "as if --softvol=yes is always set"),
     OPT_FLOATRANGE("volume-max", softvol_max, 0, 100, 1000),
     // values <0 for volume and mute are legacy and ignored
     OPT_FLOATRANGE("volume", softvol_volume, 0, -1, 1000),
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