[PATCH v2 0/4] ALSA: compress_offload: Add 64-bit safe timestamp API

[Vinod Koul]

On 11-07-25, 14:41, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Jul 2025 13:56:47 +0200,

> > Would it not be slightly simpler to just update all the in kernel
> > bits to use 64-bit and then only convert to 32-bit for the
> > existing 32-bit IOCTLs? Why do we need 32-bit callbacks into the
> > drivers for example?
> 
> Right, it's a usual pattern to have only the 64bit ops in the kernel
> driver side while providing the 32bit stuff converted in the core
> layer.  Having two different ops are rather confusing and
> superfluous after conversions.
> 
> If there are tons of users for this API, it'd be needed to convert
> gradually, and eventually drop the 32bit ops at the end.  But in this
> case, there doesn't seem so many relevant drivers, hence the
> conversion can be done in a shot as done in your patch 4.

I agree we should do that. Kernel can be 64bit only while we keep
maintaining the 32bit ioctls, cant drop that one

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~Vinod