[RFC PATCH 1/3] topology: use inclusive language for bclk

[Jaroslav Kysela]

Dne 08. 09. 20 v 16:41 Pierre-Louis Bossart napsal(a):
> 
> 
> On 9/8/20 9:35 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 08:39:13AM -0500, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
>>
>>>>> -	__u8 bclk_master;	/* SND_SOC_TPLG_BCLK_ value */
>>>>> +	__u8 bclk_provider;	/* SND_SOC_TPLG_BCLK_ value */
>>
>>>> Is it 100% compatible?  Note that the uapi/* header is a copy from the
>>>> kernel header, and it means that we'll change the same for the kernel,
>>>> too.
>>
>>> It's absolutely 100% compatible by design.
>>> I was planning to update the kernel uapi header to align changes, but the
>>> volume of code is much lower on the alsa-lib side. Will resubmit with the
>>> preferred provider/consumer wording.
>>
>> It's binary compatible but it'd break the build for any existing code
>> using the UAPI headers.
> 
> Sorry, I don't fully get the comment. Aren't the uapi headers copied 
> into each software tree that relies on them?

I think that only alsa-lib's topology library uses this header (and has own
header copy), thus the breakage is minimal in this case.

					Jaroslav

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