At Thu, 4 Jun 2009 10:37:37 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 11:09:34AM +0200, Jaroslav Kysela wrote: > > On Thu, 4 Jun 2009, Mark Brown wrote: > > >> As I've said a number of times before AC97 does not support platform > >> data and the ALSA guys blocked adding it. > > > We're not blocking adding more data to AC97 structures. We just blocked > > adding new variable when it's not used. > > There was a very strong pushback against the idea of adding a void * > to the structure, which is what I'd be looking for. Yes, I was against the void pointer because there is no guarantee of the data-type correctness between the data and the user. The normal drvdata is fine because the creator and the user are the same. But, the proposal of private_driver_data (of the last one, at least) is no such a scenario. Takashi _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
