[alsa-devel] Remaining compatibility patches for NetBSD

[Takashi Iwai]

On Thu, 03 Mar 2016 14:46:41 +0100,
Thomas Klausner wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 02:35:06PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > On Thu, 03 Mar 2016 13:02:42 +0100,
> > Thomas Klausner wrote:
> > > 
> > > Here are the remaining patches to make the build succeed on NetBSD.
> > > More patches are needed for FreeBSD and Solaris, but let's take it one
> > > at a time :-)
> > > 
> > > I think the first two (0002 and 0003) should be uncontroversial.
> > > 
> > > For patch 0004 it would perhaps be good to have versionsort/alphasort
> > > in a central place instead of two. Do you have a suggestion where?
> > > 
> > > I'm not sure what to do about 0005 since you said you don't want to
> > > modify include/sound/asound.h.
> > 
> > Right.  If we need to modify, it must be applied to Linux kernel tree
> > at first, then copy back to alsa-lib.
> 
> I haven't done this before.
> 
> I see on https://www.kernel.org/doc/linux/MAINTAINERS
> 
> SOUND
> M:	Jaroslav Kysela <perex at perex.cz>
> M:	Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.com>
> L:	alsa-devel at alsa-project.org (moderated for non-subscribers)
> W:	http://www.alsa-project.org/
> T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git
> T:	git git://git.alsa-project.org/alsa-kernel.git
> Q:	http://patchwork.kernel.org/project/alsa-devel/list/
> S:	Maintained
> F:	Documentation/sound/
> F:	include/sound/
> F:	include/uapi/sound/
> F:	sound/
> 
> Against which of the two git trees should I prepare the patch?

Use my sound git tree.


> > > endian.h seems to be unneeded on src/topology/tplg_local.h; if it's
> > > needed, I can move it inside the #ifdef.
> > 
> > src/topology/parser.c contains the code depending on the endian.
> > The include can be moved there, too.
> 
> local.h already handles endianness:
> 
> #ifdef HAVE_ENDIAN_H
> #include <endian.h>
> #elif defined(HAVE_SYS_ENDIAN_H)
> #include <sys/endian.h>
> #ifndef __BYTE_ORDER
> #define __BYTE_ORDER BYTE_ORDER
> #endif
> #ifndef __LITTLE_ENDIAN
> #define __LITTLE_ENDIAN LITTLE_ENDIAN
> #endif
> #ifndef __BIG_ENDIAN
> #define __BIG_ENDIAN BIG_ENDIAN
> #endif
> #else
> #error Header defining endianness not defined
> #endif
> 
> So I think the endian.h include is not necessary and can just be removed.

Yes, looks so.


Takashi