From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eliot Blennerhassett Subject: Re: [PATCH] Updated alsa-kernel asihpi sources so patches are no longer required. Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2010 08:14:54 +1200 Message-ID: <4C323D3E.9090901@audioscience.com> References: <1278026680-16267-1-git-send-email-linux@audioscience.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtp5.clear.net.nz (smtp5.clear.net.nz [203.97.33.68]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DFB4103804 for ; Mon, 5 Jul 2010 22:15:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.36.2] (121-72-250-62.cable.telstraclear.net [121.72.250.62]) by smtp5.clear.net.nz (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0L5300CCGPKVBA10@smtp5.clear.net.nz> for alsa-devel@alsa-project.org; Tue, 06 Jul 2010 08:14:56 +1200 (NZST) In-reply-to: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: Takashi Iwai Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Thanks Takashi, On 05/07/10 21:28, Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:24:40 +1200, > linux@audioscience.com wrote: >> >> From: Eliot Blennerhassett >> >> Signed-off-by: Eliot Blennerhassett > > Hrm, really these patches aren't needed? You are right. I confused myself: We are dropping support for older kernels from our internal source, so now I generate alsa-kernel code directly. (where previously our source looked like patched alsa-driver version) These patches should remain in alsa-driver to support older kernels. > The request_firmware() API is definitely incompatible between 2.4 > and 2.6 kernels, so we'd need a fix anyway in alsa-driver build. regards Eliot -- Eliot Blennerhassett AudioScience Inc.