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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>, perex@suse.cz
Cc: David Ford <david+challenge-response@blue-labs.org>,
	linux-kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Subject: Re: ALSA bugs with 2.6.12-rc1
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 19:34:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050404173453.GB4087@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4251749B.5060603@gentoo.org>

On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 06:08:43PM +0100, Daniel Drake wrote:
> David Ford wrote:
> > It seems that 2.6.12-rc1 introduced an ALSA bug generating an oops for a
> > null pointer.
> > 
> > codec_semaphore: semaphore is not ready [0x1][0x300300]
> > codec_read 0: semaphore is not ready for register 0x2c
> > Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
> > 00000000
> > 
> > This happens on multiple machines, 32b and 64bit.  I'll be happy to
> > provide further information if needed.
> 
> This only happens when you mismatch your kernel and alsa-lib versions, e.g.
> running alsa-lib-1.0.9-rc2 with alsa-1.0.8 in-kernel drivers, or possibly
> vice-versa.

Are you saying the userspace interface of the ALSA kernel drivers has 
incompatible changes between minor versions of ALSA?

If this is true, that's a serious bug.

> Daniel

cu
Adrian

-- 

       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
                                       Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-04-04 17:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-04 14:46 ALSA bugs with 2.6.12-rc1 David Ford
2005-04-04 17:08 ` Daniel Drake
2005-04-04 17:26   ` Takashi Iwai
2005-04-04 17:34   ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2005-04-04 18:39     ` Jaroslav Kysela

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