Re: au88x0 problems with kernel 2.6.0

[James Courtier-Dutton <James@superbug.demon.co.uk>]

Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>The normal way I patch the 2.6.x kernel, is i download alsa-kernel from 
>>CVS. and then delete the ./alsa-kernel/oss dir, then just copy all the 
>>contents of alsa-kernel over the top of /usr/src/linux/sound
>>I then copy the include directory to /usr/src/linux/include/sound, and 
>>it all works.
>>
>>I have noticed that au88x0 driver only got into the alsa-driver tree.
>>
>>Should I be doing something different in order to get au88x0 drivers 
>>into my local kernel 2.6.x tree.
>>
>>As the au88x0 drivers are not in the alsa-kernel tree, the kernel 2.6.x 
>>Kconfig file does not have a au88x0 entry, so it can not easily be moved 
>>into kernel 2.6.x.
>>
>>Can someone please point me to the correct merge/patch method, or am I 
>>in fact highlighting a bug!
> 
> 
> It's not a bug. All alpha/beta drivers are in the alsa-driver directory.  
> This directory doesn't allow to be merged to 2.6 code in a simply way, but
> you can compile these drivers as modules outside the kernel like for 2.4
> (simply go to the alsa-driver directory and run cvscompile there).
> 
> 						Jaroslav
> 

cvscompile or alsa-driver did not work on the 2.6 kernel. The modules 
did not load due to missing symbols, e.g. VMALLOC etc. and also a PDE 
error during configure

Cheers
James


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