Mention that it's completely optional now.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/sound/kernel-api/writing-an-alsa-driver.rst | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/sound/kernel-api/writing-an-alsa-driver.rst b/Documentation/sound/kernel-api/writing-an-alsa-driver.rst
index 1086b35db2af..145bf6aad7cb 100644
--- a/Documentation/sound/kernel-api/writing-an-alsa-driver.rst
+++ b/Documentation/sound/kernel-api/writing-an-alsa-driver.rst
@@ -1341,7 +1341,6 @@ shows only the skeleton, how to build up the PCM interfaces.
static struct snd_pcm_ops snd_mychip_playback_ops = {
.open = snd_mychip_playback_open,
.close = snd_mychip_playback_close,
- .ioctl = snd_pcm_lib_ioctl,
.hw_params = snd_mychip_pcm_hw_params,
.hw_free = snd_mychip_pcm_hw_free,
.prepare = snd_mychip_pcm_prepare,
@@ -1353,7 +1352,6 @@ shows only the skeleton, how to build up the PCM interfaces.
static struct snd_pcm_ops snd_mychip_capture_ops = {
.open = snd_mychip_capture_open,
.close = snd_mychip_capture_close,
- .ioctl = snd_pcm_lib_ioctl,
.hw_params = snd_mychip_pcm_hw_params,
.hw_free = snd_mychip_pcm_hw_free,
.prepare = snd_mychip_pcm_prepare,
@@ -1456,7 +1454,6 @@ The operators are defined typically like this:
static struct snd_pcm_ops snd_mychip_playback_ops = {
.open = snd_mychip_pcm_open,
.close = snd_mychip_pcm_close,
- .ioctl = snd_pcm_lib_ioctl,
.hw_params = snd_mychip_pcm_hw_params,
.hw_free = snd_mychip_pcm_hw_free,
.prepare = snd_mychip_pcm_prepare,
@@ -1913,7 +1910,10 @@ ioctl callback
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This is used for any special call to pcm ioctls. But usually you can
-pass a generic ioctl callback, :c:func:`snd_pcm_lib_ioctl()`.
+leave it as NULL, then PCM core calls the generic ioctl callback
+function :c:func:`snd_pcm_lib_ioctl()`. If you need to deal with the
+unique setup of channel info or reset procedure, you can pass your own
+callback function here.
hw_params callback
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
--
2.16.4
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