Re: CVS ALSA failed upgrade in Linux 2.6.3

[William <walsac2@liam2.demon.co.uk>]

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.

>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

> 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?

>if you're not sure, just build alsa-driver with 2.6 kernels as well as
>you did for 2.4 kernels.  it should be ok now.

William


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