There is a bit of a anti-pattern in some of the (mostly older) driver. In these drivers functions which allocate PCMs, timers, etc. take a parameter which is a pointer to a pointer of the allocated object and if the pointer is provided it is set to the newly allocate object. The code essentially looks like this.
int foobar_allocate(..., struct snd_pcm **rpcm) { struct snd_pcm *pcm; if (rpcm) *rpcm = NULL;
... /* Create and initialize object */
if (rpcm) *rpcm = pcm;
return 0; }
But then all callers to these functions always pass NULL for the pointer. So the code that checks and initializes the pointer becomes dead code. While it can be argued that such a pattern makes sense for library functions where there might be new users which want to provide a valid pointer (at least in the absence of PTR_ERR and friends), it makes less sense for functions that are only used internally in a driver which hasn't seen any new hardware support in the last 10 years.
This series goes through these drivers and removes the pointer parameter from functions which follow this pattern.
There is one exception which is the wss driver, which is kind of a library driver, where some of the users actually pass a valid pointer. But the same PCM object that is stored in that pointer can also be accessed through the wss chip state struct. So that driver is update as well.
- Lars
Lars-Peter Clausen (21): ALSA: ml403-ac97cr: Remove always NULL parameter ALSA: ad1816a: Remove always NULL parameters ALSA: es1688: Remove almost always NULL parameter ALSA: es18xx: Remove always NULL parameter ALSA: gus: Remove always NULL parameters ALSA: msnd: Remove always NULL parameter ALSA: sb8: Remove always NULL parameters ASoC: sb16: Simplify snd_sb16dsp_pcm() ALSA: wss: Remove (almost) always NULL parameters ASLA: ad1889: Remove always NULL parameter ALSA: asihpi: Remove always NULL parameter ALSA: cs4281: Remove always NULL parameters ALSA: cs46xx: Remove always NULL parameters ALSA: ens1370: Remove always NULL parameters ALSA: emu10k1: Remove always NULL parameters ALSA: fm801: Remove always NULL parameter ALSA: ice1712: Remove always NULL parameters ALSA: riptide: Remove always NULL parameter ALSA: sonicvibes: Remove always NULL parameter ALSA: trident: Remove always NULL parameters ALSA: ymfpci: Remove always NULL parameters
include/sound/ad1816a.h | 5 ++--- include/sound/emu10k1.h | 14 ++++++------- include/sound/es1688.h | 3 +-- include/sound/gus.h | 4 ++-- include/sound/sb.h | 6 +++--- include/sound/wss.h | 6 +++--- sound/drivers/ml403-ac97cr.c | 9 ++------- sound/isa/ad1816a/ad1816a.c | 5 ++--- sound/isa/ad1816a/ad1816a_lib.c | 9 ++------- sound/isa/ad1848/ad1848.c | 7 +++---- sound/isa/als100.c | 2 +- sound/isa/azt2320.c | 4 ++-- sound/isa/cmi8328.c | 4 ++-- sound/isa/cs423x/cs4231.c | 9 ++++----- sound/isa/cs423x/cs4236.c | 13 ++++++------- sound/isa/cs423x/cs4236_lib.c | 9 +++------ sound/isa/es1688/es1688.c | 7 +++---- sound/isa/es1688/es1688_lib.c | 6 +----- sound/isa/es18xx.c | 10 ++-------- sound/isa/galaxy/galaxy.c | 4 ++-- sound/isa/gus/gus_pcm.c | 6 +----- sound/isa/gus/gus_uart.c | 6 +----- sound/isa/gus/gusclassic.c | 4 ++-- sound/isa/gus/gusextreme.c | 4 ++-- sound/isa/gus/gusmax.c | 8 ++++---- sound/isa/gus/interwave.c | 14 ++++++------- sound/isa/msnd/msnd.c | 6 +----- sound/isa/msnd/msnd.h | 2 +- sound/isa/msnd/msnd_pinnacle.c | 2 +- sound/isa/opl3sa2.c | 4 ++-- sound/isa/opti9xx/miro.c | 12 +++++------- sound/isa/opti9xx/opti92x-ad1848.c | 13 +++++-------- sound/isa/sb/jazz16.c | 2 +- sound/isa/sb/sb16.c | 2 +- sound/isa/sb/sb16_main.c | 8 ++------ sound/isa/sb/sb8.c | 4 ++-- sound/isa/sb/sb8_main.c | 6 +----- sound/isa/sb/sb8_midi.c | 6 +----- sound/isa/sc6000.c | 2 +- sound/isa/sscape.c | 5 ++--- sound/isa/wavefront/wavefront.c | 4 ++-- sound/isa/wss/wss_lib.c | 8 ++------ sound/pci/ad1889.c | 10 ++-------- sound/pci/asihpi/asihpi.c | 9 ++------- sound/pci/cs4281.c | 18 ++++------------- sound/pci/cs46xx/cs46xx.c | 10 +++++----- sound/pci/cs46xx/cs46xx.h | 10 +++++----- sound/pci/cs46xx/cs46xx_lib.c | 40 +++++--------------------------------- sound/pci/cs5530.c | 2 +- sound/pci/emu10k1/emu10k1.c | 12 ++++++------ sound/pci/emu10k1/emu10k1x.c | 19 +++++------------- sound/pci/emu10k1/emufx.c | 7 +------ sound/pci/emu10k1/emupcm.c | 33 ++++--------------------------- sound/pci/emu10k1/p16v.c | 7 +------ sound/pci/ens1370.c | 37 ++++++++--------------------------- sound/pci/fm801.c | 14 +++---------- sound/pci/ice1712/ice1712.c | 26 ++++++------------------- sound/pci/riptide/riptide.c | 9 ++------- sound/pci/sonicvibes.c | 7 ++----- sound/pci/trident/trident.c | 6 +++--- sound/pci/trident/trident.h | 6 +++--- sound/pci/trident/trident_main.c | 21 +++----------------- sound/pci/ymfpci/ymfpci.c | 8 ++++---- sound/pci/ymfpci/ymfpci.h | 8 ++++---- sound/pci/ymfpci/ymfpci_main.c | 38 ++++++------------------------------ 65 files changed, 185 insertions(+), 436 deletions(-)