Re: RFC: minimalistic TLV implementation

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On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, Takashi Iwai wrote:

> At Wed, 31 May 2006 15:10:21 +0200 (CEST),
> Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > 	I've created a minimalistic TLV implemetation for the driver side. 
> > Please, review and comment it. We can add more TLV funcionality in future.
> > It is essential that user space will handle SNDRV_CTL_TLVT_LEVEL type 
> > immediately (altough it is not used in the kernel space now), otherwise we 
> > cannot group and level TLVs in future.
> 
> Please never ever include pointers in the ioctl struct.
> That's to be avoided as much as possible.

> > +struct snd_ctl_tlv {
> > +        unsigned int flags;
> > +        unsigned int length;
> > +        unsigned int value;
> > +        /*
> > +         * TLV structure is:
> > +         *   unsigned int length
> > +         *   unsigned int type	- see SNDRV_CTL_TLVT_*
> > +         *   .... data aligned to sizeof(unsigned int), use
> > +         *        block_length = (length + (sizeof(unsigned int) - 1)) &
> > +         *                       ~(sizeof(unsigned int) - 1)) ....
> > +         */
> > +        void *ptr;
> > +};

So what you suggest? Something like 'struct dm_ioctl' 
(include/linux/dm-ioctl.h) does? Data are stored after ioctl struct.
It's nearly similar.

						Jaroslav

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