Re: CVS ALSA failed upgrade in Linux 2.6.3

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Tue, 2 Mar 2004 15:52:24 GMT,
William wrote:
> 
> Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:
> >>William wrote:
> >> Jaroslav wrote on alsa-project.org:
> >> 
> >>    "simply copy files from the ALSA's alsa-kernel CVS module to relevant
> >>    locations in the 2.6 kernel tree."
> >> 
> >> This is one method of upgrading to CVS ALSA.
> >
> >"simply copy" doesn't mean so simply copy :)
> 
> Thanks for explaining that.  Please would you delete the word "simply" in
> the explanation on alsa-project.org because it's misleading.

maybe better to remove the whole sentense.

> >for example, alsa-kernel/include directory goes to
> >linux/include/sound.
> 
> Ok, so is my summary below correct?
> 
>    $ cp -fR alsa-kernel/include/*  linux/include/sound
>    $ mv -f alsa-kernel/include  out-of-the-way-temporarily
>    $ cp -fR alsa-kernel/*  linux/sound

the scripts directory shouldn't be copied.
also, Documentation directory goes to linux/sound/Documentation/sound/alsa

> > also, it might be safer to leave oss things.
> 
> What do you mean "might be safer"?  That it's really necessary to leave oss?
> Or that you're not certain?

don't copy the files under oss directory.


Takashi


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