snd_card_new() and snd_magic

snd_card_new() and snd_magic

[Martin Habets]

I just figured out I can't use the last parameter on snd_card_new()
if I want to use the snd_magic stuff. But that leaves me with some
questions:

1) Why can't/won't snd_card_new() call snd_magic_kcalloc()?
2) Why would a driver NOT want to support snd_magic? Seems to me it's
completely benign if you turn off the kernel option.

A bit confused, but getting there...
-- 
Martin


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Re: snd_card_new() and snd_magic

[Takashi Iwai]

At Sat, 18 Sep 2004 16:12:05 +0100,
Martin Habets wrote:
> 
> I just figured out I can't use the last parameter on snd_card_new()
> if I want to use the snd_magic stuff. But that leaves me with some
> questions:
> 
> 1) Why can't/won't snd_card_new() call snd_magic_kcalloc()?

snd_magic_* stuff was removed in the recent version.
Now we have kcalloc() (like calloc()) for zero-filled allocation.

> 2) Why would a driver NOT want to support snd_magic? Seems to me it's
> completely benign if you turn off the kernel option.

There were complains from kernel guys...


Takashi


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