From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Henningsson Subject: Re: Alsa Driver Scarlett Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 14:29:04 +0200 Message-ID: <54197E90.8040909@canonical.com> References: <54148F1B.2010608@gmail.com> <20140916152227.53556d96@sampi> <20140916134925.GE17677@x1-orm> <20140916161002.714e7667@sampi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from youngberry.canonical.com (youngberry.canonical.com [91.189.89.112]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CC04265367 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2014 14:29:04 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <20140916161002.714e7667@sampi> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: Johannes Kroll , alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On 2014-09-16 16:10, Johannes Kroll wrote: > On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 15:49:25 +0200 > Orm Finnendahl wrote: > >> Am Dienstag, den 16. September 2014 um 15:22:27 Uhr (+0200) schrieb Johannes Kroll: >>> >>> I guess I'll need to find the time to port the patch to a recent kernel >>> when I upgrade, unless someone else does it first. >> >> The patch still works on our recent kernels (we are on debian testing >> with a 3.14-2 kernel), atm there is no porting necessary. I can also >> confirm that the driver has no known issues on our systems (we use a >> couple of Scarlett 18i20 in different configurations). It would be >> great, though if the patch could get integrated into alsa. At the >> moment it is quite painful for our students with linux laptops as they >> have to reapply the patch on every upgrade. A tip could be to use the DKMS infrastructure, which recompiles itself on kernel upgrades. > Oh, I see. I'm all for integrating this patch into mainline. But I have > never done such a thing, so I don't know how much effort it would be. I > guess it would be a simple thing to do for a routine Alsa developer. > Anyone? :] Well, as a first check: Do we have means to contact Tobias Hoffman, and possibly other contributors? Having their sign-off would be a good start... -- David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd. https://launchpad.net/~diwic