Hi, On Thu, 4 Jul 2019, Keyon Jie wrote: > Well, to me it is flavor choice, Ranjani suggested to illustrate the use > case where the FW will use this host_period_bytes, and I agreed this > will help people to understand why we need this change. hmm, ok. So maybe add "Allows FW to use 'host_period_bytes' field for its original purpose" to my proposed wording..? >> This is not helpful -- we know this _is_ a minor ABI change >> and needs to be aligned with FW. > It is minor change, but the FW change is still required, otherwise, we > will get extra position update IPCs which may confuse the driver, please [...] > https://github.com/thesofproject/sof/pull/1592 Ack, but we know this already so best to put the accurate description in the commit message. The "might require FW change" is a bit scary statement in a patch touching ABI structs. ;) _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel