linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] headers_check: special case seqbuf

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Message-ID: <s5htxd4rq4m.wl%tiwai@suse.de>
Date:	Thu, 16 Jan 2014 14:51:53 +0100
From:	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
To:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
Cc:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] headers_check: special case seqbuf_dump()

At Thu, 16 Jan 2014 13:39:24 +0100,
Paul Bolle wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2014-01-16 at 12:53 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Wed, 15 Jan 2014 11:48:19 +0100,
> > Paul Bolle wrote:
> > > 2) By the way, what is actually meant by:
> > >     It is no longer possible to actually link against OSSlib with this
> > >     header, but we still provide these macros for programs using them.
> > > 
> > > Doesn't that mean compatibility to OSSlib isn't even useful?
> > 
> > Well, it's not about the compatibility to osslib.  The OSS seq
> > user-space codes are written with these macros no matter whether to
> > use osslib or not.  osslib was newer than these macros and it was
> > designed to be compatible with them.
> 
> So perhaps that line should read something like:
>     [...]
>     header, but we still provide these macros for programs that want to
>     interface with /dev/dsp and /dev/sequencer directly.

The macros are only for /dev/sequencer (and its variants).

> I'm making that up: I know nothing about this stuff. I'm just looking
> for a way to make that comment clear to a person that wonders in, say,
> 2019: "What on earth is seqbuf_dump() good for?".

I don't think rephrasing like the above would give a better answer...


Takashi
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