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Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: goldfish_audio.c: sparse warning of incorrect
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On Sun, 2014-08-31 at 13:02 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> Adding Alan Cox, as he pushed this driver upstream...

It's sort of a false positive. The existing code will work fine. 

Arguably all of this should be using the dma_ APIs.

Alan