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From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Subject: Re: Invalid PCM pointer with CMI8738 and pcm.c buffer
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Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 09:42:52 +0100
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Raymond Yau wrote:
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git/commit/sound/pci/cmipci.c?id=1c583063a5c769fe2ec604752e383972c69e6d9b
>
> you have to dump the value of the register and increase the number of
> trials to find out whether you can get a valid value

As shown in the bug, the register fails continuously; this is not
a transient failure that could be worked around like in that commit.

>>> Seem bug in adding channel map to iec958 instead of analog
>>
>> What does that mean?

Nothing relevant to this problem.

>> What should I do with those patches?

Nothing.


Regards,
Clemens