From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754485AbYEOFlU (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 May 2008 01:41:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751960AbYEOFlJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 May 2008 01:41:09 -0400 Received: from ns2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:53502 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751893AbYEOFlI (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 May 2008 01:41:08 -0400 Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 07:41:06 +0200 Message-ID: From: Takashi Iwai To: Theodore Tso Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Roberto Oppedisano , Stas Sergeev Subject: Re: [Bug #10679] 2.6.26-rc1 regression: e5e1d3cb20034a3cbcfff1f0bae12201aa2ce17e breaks artsd In-Reply-To: <20080514212011.GH7054@mit.edu> References: <88YBFoyd1CN.A._sF.Ov1JIB@chimera> <20080514212011.GH7054@mit.edu> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.14.0 (Africa) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.7 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Sanj=F2?=) APEL/10.6 MULE XEmacs/21.5 (beta28) (fuki) (+CVS-20070806) (i386-suse-linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org At Wed, 14 May 2008 17:20:11 -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:46:50PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > At Sun, 11 May 2008 22:04:16 +0200 (CEST), > > Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > > > This message has been generated automatically as a part of a report > > > of recent regressions. > > > > It's no regression but just a problem of a new driver. The reporter > > must have added the new config (CONFIG_SND_PCSP=[y,m]) explicitly. > > People who include this driver (either because they added it thinking > it wouldn't do much), or because their distro compiles lots of stuff > as module, could potentially get surprised, if it renumbers how the > soundcards are enumerated. On my system, my sound card ended up going > from hw:0 to hw:1, which given my ~/.asoundrc, meant that sound > appeared to be broken with errors such as this: > > aplay: set_params:900: Sample format non available > > Once I edited by ~/.asoundrc file to use hw:1 instead of hw:0 the > problem went away, so it's really not a kernel _bug_ per se, but the > result might be surprising. Maybe there should be a quick warning in > the Kconfig file? It's not that big of a deal, but I did end up > spending quite a bit of time trying to track down what I initially > thought was a regression. Sounds reasonable. To where should it be added, BTW? Little people seem to care about Kconfig help texts, and an extra comment block (with depends on SND_PCSP) could be annoying... thanks, Takashi