On 15 February 2016 at 19:29, Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 05:49:29PM +0530, Vaibhav Agarwal wrote: >> This is preperation to allow dynamic DAI link insertion & >> removal. > > Which there is no proposed user of here... > >> Currently, DAI links are added/removed once during soc-card >> instatiate & removal. Thus, irrespective of usage count by multiple >> DAI links, DAIs and components are probed or removed only once >> while maintaining 'probed' flag. >> However, in case of dynamic DAI link insertion/removal we need to >> ensure DAI/components are not unnecessarily probed multiple & not >> removed mistakenly while in use by any other existing DAI link. >> Thus, ref_count is used to maintain their usage count. > > Please use normal changelog formatting - either consistent line lengths > or blank lines between paragraphs depending on what you're trying to > accomplish here. Sure, I'll take care while submitting future patches. > >> - if (!dai->probed && dai->driver->probe_order == order) { >> - if (dai->driver->probe) { >> - ret = dai->driver->probe(dai); >> - if (ret < 0) { >> - dev_err(dai->dev, >> - "ASoC: failed to probe DAI %s: %d\n", >> - dai->name, ret); >> - return ret; >> + if (dai->driver->probe_order == order) { >> + if (!dai->probed) { >> + if (dai->driver->probe) { >> + ret = dai->driver->probe(dai); >> + if (ret < 0) { >> + dev_err(dai->dev, >> + "ASoC: failed to probe DAI %s: %d\n", >> + dai->name, ret); >> + return ret; >> + } >> } >> - } >> >> - dai->probed = 1; >> + dai->probed = 1; >> + } >> + dai->ref_count++; >> } > > I don't understand this at all - why the complete reindent and change of > condition, don't we just increase the refcount when we flag as probed > (and why do we still have the probed flag after this)? yes, non-zero check would also solve the purpose of probed flag. will make this change in next patchset. _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel