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authorTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>2009-03-24 00:35:35 +0100
committerTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>2009-03-24 00:35:35 +0100
commitdec14f8c0eff54549e5747f8a4d1dc6c0347e2dd (patch)
treeaf1744c17c4bacad4c9524ad096d5a65f6c25c73 /Documentation
parent8e0ee43bc2c3e19db56a4adaa9a9b04ce885cd84 (diff)
parentb1a0aac05f044e78a589bfd7a9e2334aa640eb45 (diff)
Merge branch 'topic/snd_card_new-err' into for-linus
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/sound/alsa/DocBook/writing-an-alsa-driver.tmpl44
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sound/alsa/DocBook/writing-an-alsa-driver.tmpl b/Documentation/sound/alsa/DocBook/writing-an-alsa-driver.tmpl
index 87a7c07ab658..320384c1791b 100644
--- a/Documentation/sound/alsa/DocBook/writing-an-alsa-driver.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/sound/alsa/DocBook/writing-an-alsa-driver.tmpl
@@ -492,9 +492,9 @@
}
/* (2) */
- card = snd_card_new(index[dev], id[dev], THIS_MODULE, 0);
- if (card == NULL)
- return -ENOMEM;
+ err = snd_card_create(index[dev], id[dev], THIS_MODULE, 0, &card);
+ if (err < 0)
+ return err;
/* (3) */
err = snd_mychip_create(card, pci, &chip);
@@ -590,8 +590,9 @@
<programlisting>
<![CDATA[
struct snd_card *card;
+ int err;
....
- card = snd_card_new(index[dev], id[dev], THIS_MODULE, 0);
+ err = snd_card_create(index[dev], id[dev], THIS_MODULE, 0, &card);
]]>
</programlisting>
</informalexample>
@@ -809,26 +810,28 @@
<para>
As mentioned above, to create a card instance, call
- <function>snd_card_new()</function>.
+ <function>snd_card_create()</function>.
<informalexample>
<programlisting>
<![CDATA[
struct snd_card *card;
- card = snd_card_new(index, id, module, extra_size);
+ int err;
+ err = snd_card_create(index, id, module, extra_size, &card);
]]>
</programlisting>
</informalexample>
</para>
<para>
- The function takes four arguments, the card-index number, the
+ The function takes five arguments, the card-index number, the
id string, the module pointer (usually
<constant>THIS_MODULE</constant>),
- and the size of extra-data space. The last argument is used to
+ the size of extra-data space, and the pointer to return the
+ card instance. The extra_size argument is used to
allocate card-&gt;private_data for the
chip-specific data. Note that these data
- are allocated by <function>snd_card_new()</function>.
+ are allocated by <function>snd_card_create()</function>.
</para>
</section>
@@ -915,15 +918,16 @@
</para>
<section id="card-management-chip-specific-snd-card-new">
- <title>1. Allocating via <function>snd_card_new()</function>.</title>
+ <title>1. Allocating via <function>snd_card_create()</function>.</title>
<para>
As mentioned above, you can pass the extra-data-length
- to the 4th argument of <function>snd_card_new()</function>, i.e.
+ to the 4th argument of <function>snd_card_create()</function>, i.e.
<informalexample>
<programlisting>
<![CDATA[
- card = snd_card_new(index[dev], id[dev], THIS_MODULE, sizeof(struct mychip));
+ err = snd_card_create(index[dev], id[dev], THIS_MODULE,
+ sizeof(struct mychip), &card);
]]>
</programlisting>
</informalexample>
@@ -952,8 +956,8 @@
<para>
After allocating a card instance via
- <function>snd_card_new()</function> (with
- <constant>NULL</constant> on the 4th arg), call
+ <function>snd_card_create()</function> (with
+ <constant>0</constant> on the 4th arg), call
<function>kzalloc()</function>.
<informalexample>
@@ -961,7 +965,7 @@
<![CDATA[
struct snd_card *card;
struct mychip *chip;
- card = snd_card_new(index[dev], id[dev], THIS_MODULE, NULL);
+ err = snd_card_create(index[dev], id[dev], THIS_MODULE, 0, &card);
.....
chip = kzalloc(sizeof(*chip), GFP_KERNEL);
]]>
@@ -5750,8 +5754,9 @@ struct _snd_pcm_runtime {
....
struct snd_card *card;
struct mychip *chip;
+ int err;
....
- card = snd_card_new(index[dev], id[dev], THIS_MODULE, NULL);
+ err = snd_card_create(index[dev], id[dev], THIS_MODULE, 0, &card);
....
chip = kzalloc(sizeof(*chip), GFP_KERNEL);
....
@@ -5763,7 +5768,7 @@ struct _snd_pcm_runtime {
</informalexample>
When you created the chip data with
- <function>snd_card_new()</function>, it's anyway accessible
+ <function>snd_card_create()</function>, it's anyway accessible
via <structfield>private_data</structfield> field.
<informalexample>
@@ -5775,9 +5780,10 @@ struct _snd_pcm_runtime {
....
struct snd_card *card;
struct mychip *chip;
+ int err;
....
- card = snd_card_new(index[dev], id[dev], THIS_MODULE,
- sizeof(struct mychip));
+ err = snd_card_create(index[dev], id[dev], THIS_MODULE,
+ sizeof(struct mychip), &card);
....
chip = card->private_data;
....