[alsa-devel] [PATCH 03/18] dmaengine: PL08x: Rework LLI handling to be less fragile

[Linus Walleij]

On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 7:59 PM, Tomasz Figa <tomasz.figa at gmail.com> wrote:

> Currently memory allocated for LLIs is casted to an array of structs,
> which is fragile and also limits the driver to a single, predefined LLI
> layout, while there are some variants of PL08x, which have more fields
> in LLI (namely PL080S with its extra CCTL2).
>
> This patch makes LLIs a sequence of 32-bit words, which is just filled
> with appropriate values in appropriate order and padded with required
> amount of dummy words (currently zero, but PL080S will make better use
> of this).
>
> Suggested-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Tomasz Figa <tomasz.figa at gmail.com>

Yes exactly like this :-)

Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>

Yours,
Linus Walleij