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We have an ioctl to inform the PCM protocol version the running kernel supports, but there is no way to know which protocol version the user-space can understand. This lack of information caused headaches in the past when we tried to extend the ABI. For example, because we couldn't guarantee the validity of the reserved bytes, we had to introduce a new ioctl SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_STATUS_EXT for assigning a few new fields in the formerly reserved bits. If we could know that it's a new alsa-lib, we could assume the availability of the new fields, thus we could have reused the existing SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_STATUS. In order to improve the ABI extensibility, this patch adds a new ioctl for user-space to inform its supporting protocol version to the kernel. By reporting the supported protocol from user-space, the kernel can judge which feature should be provided and which not. With the addition of the new ioctl, the PCM protocol version is bumped to 2.0.14, too. User-space checks the kernel protocol version via SNDRV_PCM_INFO_PVERSION, then it sets the supported version back via SNDRV_PCM_INFO_USER_PVERSION. Reviewed-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> |
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README
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.