Re: [PATCH 0/2] ALSA/DRM: vmalloc PCM buffer helper cleanup

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 15 Aug 2024 10:03:40 +0200,
Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 07 Aug 2024 17:27:21 +0200,
> Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > we still keep the legacy vmalloc ALSA PCM helper API since there is
> > only a single user of it, namely, the DRM dw-hdmi bridge driver.
> > In the past, I attempted to change the buffer management of the
> > driver, but due to the lack of testing, it failed to get merged:
> >   https://lore.kernel.org/20191210154536.29819-1-tiwai@xxxxxxx
> > 
> > So, this is a second try after some years of gap: now the relevant
> > code snippet is moved from ALSA core to dw-hdmi driver itself, and the
> > API functions are dropped.  There should be no functional changes in
> > the driver.
> > 
> > If DRM people don't mind and give an ack, I can take the change for
> > dw-hdmi code together with ALSA core code drop via sound tree for
> > 6.12.
> 
> Gentle ping to any DRM reviewers.  It's merely a safe clean up, so if
> you don't mind, I'd like to take for 6.12.

Now merged to for-next branch of sound.git tree.


Takashi