Re: Re: Fix emu10k1 breakages in kernel 2.6.12

[James Courtier-Dutton <james.dutton@gmail.com>]

On 7/5/05, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:
> At Tue, 05 Jul 2005 11:41:44 -0400,
> Lee Revell wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 17:40 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > > At Tue, 05 Jul 2005 11:33:37 -0400,
> > > Lee Revell wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 23:46 +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> > > > > So, my general point is that people are going to get bitten no matter
> > > > > what we do for the "unknown" case, but my original method was going to
> > > > > have less of an impact that potentially yours will.
> > > >
> > > > Any more feedback on this?  We absolutely need to address the problem in
> > > > the next -stable release.
> > >
> > > I agree with James.
> >
> > OK, James, do you want to generate a new patch for -stable?   As the
> > developer of this feature, I think you understand the behavior better
> > than me...
> 
> BTW, it would be nice, too, if we have a "model" module option like
> other drivers.  It would give users a chance to choose another card
> model without compiling drivers if the card is not detected
> correctly.
> 
> This isn't necessarily put to -stable tree, though.
> 
> 
> Takashi
> 

I don't know about stable stuff.
I currently only have access to the alsa cvs, so I put fixes in their
and let other people migrate those into kernel xyz.
I will look at the "model" option when I get a chance next weekend.


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