[alsa-devel] SB16 build error.
Arnd Bergmann
arnd at arndb.de
Thu Jun 30 14:54:16 CEST 2011
On Thursday 30 June 2011, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> #define SNDRV_SB_CSP_IOCTL_LOAD_CODE \
> _IOC(_IOC_WRITE,'H', 0x11, sizeof(struct snd_sb_csp_microcode))
>
> error checking can be bypassed and all will be fine as long as the
> resulting value doesn't result in in a a duplicate case value - which it
> doesn't, at least not in my testing.
>
> Should work but isn't nice.
Right. It's probably the best we can do. I think we added a few similar
definitions when we originally introduce _IOC_TYPECHECK. The idea was
never to break existing code, but rather to avoid merging new drivers that
use inconsistent ioctl command numbers.
Arnd
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