Re: kernel 2.5.10 problems

[Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>]

Dave Jones wrote:
>  On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 05:58:14PM -0600, dmacbanay@softhome.net wrote:
>  
>  > 4.  Starting with kernel 2.5.6 (kernels 2.5.5 through 2.5.6-pre3 work)  the 
>  > KDE program krecord closes right after it starts. 
>  
>  Interesting. last few lines of strace output may show up what's going on.
>  Can you do a before/after strace on a working & non-working kernel?

That one likely is a known bug in the ALSA OSS emulation, Takashi
recently fixed it.

  Gerd

===== sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c 1.4 vs edited =====
--- 1.4/sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c	Mon Mar 18 16:21:13 2002
+++ edited/sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c	Wed Apr 17 12:00:55 2002
@@ -557,7 +557,7 @@
 			if (ret < 0)
 				break;
 		}
-		ret = snd_pcm_lib_read(substream, ptr, frames);
+//		ret = snd_pcm_lib_read(substream, ptr, frames);
 		if (in_kernel) {
 			mm_segment_t fs;
 			fs = snd_enter_user();