Re: es18xx - 1869 not working, debugging ALSA drivers

[Benny Sjostrand <gorm@cucumelo.org>]

>
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>I've been trying to debug the driver, but it's not really my thing... Maybe 
>there are some handy tricks to debug ALSA drivers? Or is it just:
>1) change the source
>2) compile the source
>3) see if it works (by loading the module.. and playing some audio)
>4) if it doesn't work restart with 1)
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Yeah,.., I feel familiar with that method -:) I guess I'm not the only one
Probably you can add a point:
 3.5) If the computer totally freezes (course change to the source was 
very wrong and bad) restart computer, and go to 1) + (I hate ext2 
filesystems)

 I don't known any better method, maybe just yet another point:
1.5) review changes yet one more time and go back to 1 or 1.5 a couple 
of times
       to try prevent moment "3.5"

But, stuffs like the tool  "ksymoops", the alsa functions/macros:  
snd_assert(...),
snd_magic_cast(...), snd_printk(...), snd_printdd(...), etc. helps a lot!

/Benny





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