On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 09:07:13AM +1100, herbert wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 05:01:21PM -0500, John W. Linville wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 04:23:46PM -0500, John W. Linville wrote:
> > 
> > > + /* if we are currently stopped, then our CIV is actually set to our
> > > +  * *last* sg segment and we are ready to wrap to the next.  However,
> > > +  * if we set our LVI to the last sg segment, then it won't wrap to
> > > +  * the next sg segment, it won't even get a start.  So, instead, when
> > > +  * we are stopped, we increment the CIV value to the next sg segment
> > > +  * to be played so that when we call start, things will operate
> > > +  * properly
> > > +  */
> > 
> > Is this (slightly altered) comment more to your liking?  If so,
> > I'll post an additive patch for the 2.6 version...
> 
> IMHO the last sentence is still wrong.  We're not touching the value
> of CIV at all.  We're setting LVI to CIV + 1...
> 
> OTOH, perhaps we should actually try implementing what the comment
> suggests?

OK I dug into the archives and found that the reason we need to do
it this way is because you can't set the value of CIV directly.  So
how about s/CIV/LVI/ in the last sentence?

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