Re: SB16 build error.

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Thursday 30 June 2011, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> #define SNDRV_SB_CSP_IOCTL_LOAD_CODE                            \
>         _IOC(_IOC_WRITE,'H', 0x11, sizeof(struct snd_sb_csp_microcode))
> 
> error checking can be bypassed and all will be fine as long as the
> resulting value doesn't result in in a a duplicate case value - which it
> doesn't, at least not in my testing.
> 
> Should work but isn't nice.

Right. It's probably the best we can do. I think we added a few similar
definitions when we originally introduce _IOC_TYPECHECK. The idea was
never to break existing code, but rather to avoid merging new drivers that
use inconsistent ioctl command numbers.

	Arnd
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