[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: Fix wm8753 register cache size and initialization

Mark Brown broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com
Fri Jul 3 12:35:18 CEST 2009


On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 12:15:45PM +0200, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> Mark Brown wrote:

> >Only 62 of the registers are cached - please see the register cache
> >access code.

> Yes. Thats the problem. The register cache holds place for 62
> elements where as there are 63 register which should be cached.
> In the register cache access code you subtract one from the
> registers index to get it's index in the register cache array, so
> the last register has the index 62. Which means it is the 63th
> element of the array and thus the array has to consist of 63
> elements.

OK, that makes sense.  I will apply your patch with a rewritten commit
message which explains the issue - the problem is not that there is one
less register in the cache than is in use, it's that there is one less
register in the cache than is *cached*.  As I say the code deliberately
doesn't cache one of the registers.

> >I'm not 100% sure what you mean here but I suspect you're misreading the
> >register cache access code?

> The register cache access code uses one-based indexing so the first

Right, that makes sense with the above.


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