Re: [regression] 2.6.25-rc4 snd-es18xx broken on Alpha

[Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>]

On 12-03-08 15:40, Bob Tracy wrote:

> Well, I built a 2.6.22 kernel last night, and in tests this morning
> there's no difference relative to the ALSA behavior seen in 2.6.25-rc4.

Okay. If someone is tracking this as a 2.6.25 regresion, it can be stricken 
of that list.

> Since the question came up (or was strongly implied), I took the time to
> check the status of IRQ 5 in /proc/interrupts, and while it shows up as
> assigned to the sound card, no interrupts are being seen/processed by
> the es18xx driver.

That is indeed what it soundeed like, or the first bit at least.

> When I remove the snd-es18xx module and install the snd-sb8 module with
> the same parameters (other than there's no second DMA channel), the
> /proc/interrupts counter for IRQ 5 increments as expected when playing
> sound files.

What does cat /proc/config.gz | grep CONFIG_ALPHA_ say? Miuchael, and for 
you? For some Alpha configs, arch/alpha/kernel/es1888.c is compiled and for 
some not. I expect for you (Bob) it's compiled in? And Michael?

Rene.