Re: [Alsa-user] alsa cvs, redhat9, kernel 2-4-20-8

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Sat, 5 Apr 2003 12:00:28 +0200,
Matthias Saou wrote:
> 
> "Jeremy Sanders" <jsanders@teklinks.com> wrote :
> 
> > Maybe matthias.saou@est.une.marmotte.net is the one to ask. He's the one
> > who built the freshrpm package that works with the redhat 9 kernel.
> > Maybe he can shed some light on what he had to do.
> > 
> > Matthias,
> > 
> > Do you have any ideas about this?
> 
> Yes I have :-)
> I didn't think of it myself though, someone had suggested me this solution
> a while back for the latest Rawhide kernels. Take a look at my spec file if
> you like: http://freshrpms.net/packages/builds/index.html?build=alsa-driver
> 
> The part that "fixes" the schedule_work problem is:
> 
> # Temporary Rawhide kernel workaround - Disable ALSA workqueue wrapper
> touch include/linux/workqueue.h
> 
> I don't really know the implications of doing this, but I'm open to any
> suggestions or better ways of getting the kernel modules to work.

the current alsa code checks the existence of __WORK_INITIALIZER
macro.  if it's defined, no wrapper function is used.
in rh's include/linux/workqueue.h, is this macro defined?


btw, alsa-devel is the suitable place for such a problem.
i added a cc.


ciao,

Takashi


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