diff --git a/src/modules/alsa/mixer/samples/USB Device 0x46d:0x9a4--USB Mixer b/src/modules/alsa/mixer/samples/USB Device 0x46d:0x9a4--USB Mixer
deleted file mode 100644
index 783f826fcdc79e92ab66ec4348a1e3174984c3ab..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/src/modules/alsa/mixer/samples/USB Device 0x46d:0x9a4--USB Mixer	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Simple mixer control 'Mic',0
-  Capabilities: cvolume cvolume-joined cswitch cswitch-joined
-  Capture channels: Mono
-  Limits: Capture 0 - 3072
-  Mono: Capture 1536 [50%] [23.00dB] [on]
diff --git a/src/pulsecore/modargs.c b/src/pulsecore/modargs.c
index a707f6c8de3741de79806df33b5aa5482214f083..04cda5684ebd0ec8a3e427dd5e4ec9172e31f265 100644
--- a/src/pulsecore/modargs.c
+++ b/src/pulsecore/modargs.c
@@ -342,6 +342,20 @@ int pa_modargs_get_value_s32(pa_modargs *ma, const char *key, int32_t *value) {
     return 0;
 }
 
+int pa_modargs_get_value_u64(pa_modargs *ma, const char *key, uint64_t *value) {
+    const char *v;
+
+    pa_assert(value);
+
+    if (!(v = pa_modargs_get_value(ma, key, NULL)))
+        return 0;
+
+    if (pa_atou64(v, value) < 0)
+        return -1;
+
+    return 0;
+}
+
 int pa_modargs_get_value_boolean(pa_modargs *ma, const char *key, bool *value) {
     const char *v;
     int r;
diff --git a/src/pulsecore/modargs.h b/src/pulsecore/modargs.h
index abb16747de10032ac654289c9841b4cbb4c1bc50..416f346b9cd4d868b80d99fb53db305ecc900c77 100644
--- a/src/pulsecore/modargs.h
+++ b/src/pulsecore/modargs.h
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ const char *pa_modargs_get_value(pa_modargs *ma, const char *key, const char *de
  * was not specified, *value remains unchanged. */
 int pa_modargs_get_value_u32(pa_modargs *ma, const char *key, uint32_t *value);
 int pa_modargs_get_value_s32(pa_modargs *ma, const char *key, int32_t *value);
+int pa_modargs_get_value_u64(pa_modargs *ma, const char *key, uint64_t *value);
 int pa_modargs_get_value_boolean(pa_modargs *ma, const char *key, bool *value);
 
 /* Return a module argument as double value in *value. If the argument was not