Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] ASoC: generic-dmaengine-pcm: Prepare formats mask for valid physical sample sizes

[Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>]

On 07/02/2014 04:12 PM, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Wed, 02 Jul 2014 16:10:09 +0200,
> Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
>>
>> On 07/02/2014 03:47 PM, Takashi Iwai wrote:
>> [...]
>>>> +	/*
>>>> +	 * Prepare formats mask for valid/allowed sample types. If the dma does
>>>> +	 * not have support for the given physical word size, it needs to be
>>>> +	 * masked out so user space can not use the format which produces
>>>> +	 * corrupted audio.
>>>> +	 * In case the dma driver does not implement the slave_caps the default
>>>> +	 * assumption is that it supports 1, 2 and 4 bytes widths.
>>>> +	 */
>>>> +	for (i = 0; i <= SNDRV_PCM_FORMAT_LAST; i++) {
>>>> +		int bits = snd_pcm_format_physical_width(i);
>>>
>>> Better to add a negative value check.  Some formats return -EINVAL.
>>>
>>
>> So what should we do with those formats? Not support them?
>
> Yes, these are special formats that can't be handled generically.
>

Looking through the list in pcm_misc.c there are also some formats where the 
physical width is not a multiple of 8. We should probably also skip those.

- Lars