Re: Re: [ALSA - driver 0001138]: errors when installing au8820 modules

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Tue, 23 Aug 2005 23:20:00 +0800,
Raymond wrote:
> 
> Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Sat, 20 Aug 2005 08:45:47 +0800,
> > Raymond wrote:
> > 
> >>
> >>I am still using Kernel 2.4 which is not affected by the missing of 
> >>these two patches.
> >>
> >>Is the missing of "snd_card_set_dev(card, &pci->dev);" affected only 
> >>some distrubtion of Kernel 2.6 (32-bits platform) ?
> >>
> >>https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=299
> > 
> > 
> > Sure, it's only for 2.6, and it can't be critical.
> > It just adds the sysfs entry for udev/hal.  It must work fine without
> > it.
> > 
> > 
> >>The reporter of bug 216 using Kernel 2.4 and the reporter of bug 299 
> >>using Kernel 2.6
> > 
> > 
> > Then this will fix that bug very unlikely.
> > 
> > 
> > Takashi
> > 
> 
> For au88x0 on AMD64
> 
> One of the au8810 user still experience hangs when using GAIM.
> 
> Igor V. Kovalenko reported his patch is OK for his au8820
> 
> http://savannah.nongnu.org/patch/?func=detailitem&item_id=3948#comment43
> 
> There are no feed back from the reporters of ALSA BTS and another au8830 
> user in the alsa.user mailing list.
> 
> https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=1047  au8810
> https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=1138  au8820
> https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=1025  au8830
> 
> Would you related this three bugs report ?
> 
> They can try Igor V. Kovalenko's patch at the openvortex project.

The current code can't work obviously on 64bit architecture because
of the following definition:

struct snd_vortex {
	...
	unsigned long __iomem *mmio;
	...
};

It must be u32 if you want to be architecture independent.


Takashi


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