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Diffstat (limited to 'sound/drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | sound/drivers/Kconfig | 26 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | sound/drivers/virmidi.c | 2 |
2 files changed, 23 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/sound/drivers/Kconfig b/sound/drivers/Kconfig index b6ae762..c896116 100644 --- a/sound/drivers/Kconfig +++ b/sound/drivers/Kconfig @@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ config SND_ML403_AC97CR select SND_AC97_CODEC help Say Y here to include support for the - opb_ac97_controller_ref_v1_00_a ip core found in Xilinx' ML403 + opb_ac97_controller_ref_v1_00_a ip core found in Xilinx's ML403 reference design. To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module @@ -189,9 +189,25 @@ config SND_AC97_POWER_SAVE AC97 codecs. In this mode, the power-mode is dynamically controlled at each open/close. - The mode is activated by passing power_save=1 option to - snd-ac97-codec driver. You can toggle it dynamically over - sysfs, too. + The mode is activated by passing 'power_save=X' to the + snd-ac97-codec driver module, where 'X' is the time-out + value, a nonnegative integer that specifies how many + seconds of idle time the driver must count before it may + put the AC97 into power-save mode; a value of 0 (zero) + disables the use of this power-save mode. + + After the snd-ac97-codec driver module has been loaded, + the 'power_save' parameter can be set via sysfs as follows: + + echo 10 > /sys/module/snd_ac97_codec/parameters/power_save + + In this case, the time-out is set to 10 seconds; setting + the time-out to 1 second (the minimum activation value) + isn't recommended because many applications try to reopen + the device frequently. A value of 10 seconds would be a + good choice for normal operations. + + See Documentation/sound/alsa/powersave.txt for more details. config SND_AC97_POWER_SAVE_DEFAULT int "Default time-out for AC97 power-save mode" @@ -201,4 +217,6 @@ config SND_AC97_POWER_SAVE_DEFAULT The default time-out value in seconds for AC97 automatic power-save mode. 0 means to disable the power-save mode. + See SND_AC97_POWER_SAVE for more details. + endif # SND_DRIVERS diff --git a/sound/drivers/virmidi.c b/sound/drivers/virmidi.c index 0e631c3..f4cd493 100644 --- a/sound/drivers/virmidi.c +++ b/sound/drivers/virmidi.c @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ static int __devinit snd_virmidi_probe(struct platform_device *devptr) sizeof(struct snd_card_virmidi), &card); if (err < 0) return err; - vmidi = (struct snd_card_virmidi *)card->private_data; + vmidi = card->private_data; vmidi->card = card; if (midi_devs[dev] > MAX_MIDI_DEVICES) { |
