[alsa-devel] [PATCH - [hdspm] RayDAT/AIO 1/2] ALSA: Add support for RME RayDAT and AIO

[Jaroslav Kysela]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2011, Adrian Knoth wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 09:09:05AM +0100, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
>
>>>> +char channel_map_unity_ss[HDSPM_MAX_CHANNELS] = {
>>>
>>> Err, no, array definitions should be never in a header file.
>>> It doesn't matter whether it's static or not.  The definition should
>>> be in *.c file where it's used.
>
> We have more than one C file using this information...
>
>>> So, simply move these array definitions to hdspm.c.
>>
>> I think that the reason is to share these arrays with hdspmixer.
>
> Exactly. hdspmixer needs this information, too. If we move it to the C
> file, we would need to duplicate the information in hdspmixer. And then
> we forget about it next time hdspm.h needs to be updated.
>
>
>> But I agree, that it's better to move these static values to .c files.
>
> Ok, I've sent a follow-up patch to avoid to send the whole 180k patch
> for the 4th time.
>
> I'll now duplicate this information and send a patch against hdspmixer.
> I feel that there should be a better solution like getting the channel
> mapping from the driver (sysfs, proc, ioctl or whatever), but that's for
> some other time.

Thanks. I applied your patches to my git tree with some slight subject 
modifications. Please, Takashi, do a cherry-pick. Thanks.

 						Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <perex at perex.cz>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, Red Hat, Inc.