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Takashi Sakamoto 407359d44e ALSA: firewire-motu: export meter information to userspace as float value
In command DSP models, one meter information consists of 4 bytes for
IEEE 764 floating point (binary32). In previous patch, it is exported
to userspace as 32 bit storage since the storage is also handled in
ALSA firewire-motu driver as well in kernel space in which floating point
arithmetic is not preferable. On the other hand, ALSA firewire-motu driver
doesn't perform floating point calculation. The driver just gather meter
information from isochronous packets and fill structure fields for
userspace.

In 'header' target of Kbuild, UAPI headers are processed before installed.
In this timing, #ifdef macro with __KERNEL__ is removed. This mechanism
is useful in the case so that the 32 bit storage can be accessible as u32
type in kernel space and float type in user space. We can see the same
usage in ''struct acct_v3' in 'include/uapi/linux/acct.h'.

This commit is for the above idea. Additionally, due to message
protocol, meter information is filled with 0xffffffff in the end of
period but 0xffffffff is invalid as binary32. To avoid confusion in
userspace application, the last two elements are left without any
assignment.

Suggested-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211027125529.54295-4-o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2021-10-28 09:10:41 +02:00
arch Updates for the SMP and CPU hotplug: 2021-09-12 12:42:51 -07:00
block block-5.15-2021-09-11 2021-09-11 10:19:51 -07:00
certs certs: Add support for using elliptic curve keys for signing modules 2021-08-23 19:55:42 +03:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2021-08-30 12:57:10 -07:00
Documentation An assortment of improvements for auxdisplay: 2021-09-12 16:00:49 -07:00
drivers An assortment of improvements for auxdisplay: 2021-09-12 16:00:49 -07:00
fs Merge branch 'misc.namei' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2021-09-12 10:43:51 -07:00
include ALSA: firewire-motu: export meter information to userspace as float value 2021-10-28 09:10:41 +02:00
init More tracing updates for 5.15: 2021-09-09 13:11:15 -07:00
ipc ARM development updates for 5.15: 2021-09-09 13:25:49 -07:00
kernel - Make sure the idle timer expires in hardirq context, on PREEMPT_RT 2021-09-12 11:37:41 -07:00
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samples kgdb patches for 5.15 2021-09-07 12:08:04 -07:00
scripts RISC-V Patches for the 5.15 Merge Window, Part 2 2021-09-11 14:29:42 -07:00
security Kbuild updates for v5.15 2021-09-03 15:33:47 -07:00
sound ALSA: firewire-motu: export meter information to userspace as float value 2021-10-28 09:10:41 +02:00
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Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

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.