From: David Henningsson <david.henningsson@canonical.com>
To: Johannes Kroll <j-kroll@gmx.de>, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Subject: Re: Alsa Driver Scarlett
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 14:29:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54197E90.8040909@canonical.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140916161002.714e7667@sampi>
On 2014-09-16 16:10, Johannes Kroll wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 15:49:25 +0200
> Orm Finnendahl <orm.finnendahl@selma.hfmdk-frankfurt.de> wrote:
>
>> Am Dienstag, den 16. September 2014 um 15:22:27 Uhr (+0200) schrieb Johannes Kroll:
>>>
>>> I guess I'll need to find the time to port the patch to a recent kernel
>>> when I upgrade, unless someone else does it first.
>>
>> The patch still works on our recent kernels (we are on debian testing
>> with a 3.14-2 kernel), atm there is no porting necessary. I can also
>> confirm that the driver has no known issues on our systems (we use a
>> couple of Scarlett 18i20 in different configurations). It would be
>> great, though if the patch could get integrated into alsa. At the
>> moment it is quite painful for our students with linux laptops as they
>> have to reapply the patch on every upgrade.
A tip could be to use the DKMS infrastructure, which recompiles itself
on kernel upgrades.
> Oh, I see. I'm all for integrating this patch into mainline. But I have
> never done such a thing, so I don't know how much effort it would be. I
> guess it would be a simple thing to do for a routine Alsa developer.
> Anyone? :]
Well, as a first check: Do we have means to contact Tobias Hoffman, and
possibly other contributors? Having their sign-off would be a good start...
--
David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd.
https://launchpad.net/~diwic
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-17 12:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-13 18:38 Alsa Driver Scarlett Eugène Bandit
2014-09-16 13:22 ` Johannes Kroll
2014-09-16 13:49 ` Orm Finnendahl
2014-09-16 14:10 ` Johannes Kroll
2014-09-17 12:29 ` David Henningsson [this message]
2014-09-18 12:02 ` Johannes Kroll
2014-09-18 13:51 ` Daniel Mack
2014-09-18 12:29 ` David Henningsson
2014-09-18 16:07 ` Dominik Haumann
2014-09-18 16:20 ` Tobias Hoffmann
2014-09-19 9:03 ` David Henningsson
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