linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] ASoC: lpass-platform: Fix broken pcm data usage

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Date:   Fri, 28 Oct 2016 22:11:35 +0100
From:   Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org>
To:     Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Cc:     alsa-devel@...a-project.org,
        Banajit Goswami <bgoswami@...eaurora.org>,
        Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
        Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>,
        Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Kenneth Westfield <kwestfie@...eaurora.org>,
        Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@...esas.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] ASoC: lpass-platform: Fix broken pcm data usage



On 28/10/16 19:26, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 04:32:19PM +0100, Srinivas Kandagatla wrote:
>> This patch fixes lpass-platform driver which was broken in v4.9-rc1.
>> lpass_pcm_data data structure holds information specific to stream.
>> Holding a single private pointer to it in global lpass_data
>> will not work, because it would be overwritten by for each pcm instance.
>
> This is a bug fix but you've made it depend on patch 1 which is just a
> refactoring and should therefore not be sent to Linus as a fix.  Please
> don't do this, fix bugs first then do any cleanups and new
> functionality.  That way we can send fixes to Linus without needing to
> pull in extra stuff.
Sorry about that, I will resend the fix patch without any dependencies.

Thanks,
srini


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