[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC don't clobber platform DMA driver ops

[r80115]

On 11/15/2011 10:56 AM, Tabi Timur-B04825 wrote:
> Something is wrong.  When I apply this patch, I get this:
>
>    CC      sound/soc/soc-core.o
> /home/b04825/git/linux.34/sound/soc/soc-core.c: In function
> 'soc_cleanup_card_resources':
> /home/b04825/git/linux.34/sound/soc/soc-core.c:1583:3: error:
> incompatible type for argument 1 of 'kfree'
> /home/b04825/git/linux.34/include/linux/slab.h:161:6: note: expected
> 'const void *' but argument is of type 'struct snd_pcm_ops'
>
> 	/* free the ops */
> 	for (i = 0; i<  card->num_rtd; i++) {
> 		struct snd_soc_pcm_runtime *rtd =&card->rtd[i];
> 		kfree(rtd->ops);
> 	}
>
> rtd->ops is not a pointer, so it can't be freed.  Also, this:
>
> +	rtd->ops = soc_pcm_ops;
>
> is a memcpy.  Why not just write to rtd->ops directly?
>


I see the problem.  I implemented this under 2.6.38.  rtd->ops was a 
pointer under 2.6.38.  This could change much then.

-- 
Regards,
Alan