Fun with ALSA

[Chuck Ebbert]

We should consider carrying the latest ALSA patchset in Fedora.
That way we wouldn't be forever chasing bugs they have already
fixed...

[Dave Jones]

On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 05:22:54PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
>  We should consider carrying the latest ALSA patchset in Fedora.
>  That way we wouldn't be forever chasing bugs they have already
>  fixed... 
Yeah, has crossed my mind a few times, and it is almost entirely
isolated in sound/ so has no impact to anything else.

We could tie it in with scripts/pull-upstreams.sh

I wish the ALSA folks would just push their stuff a little faster though.

	Dave

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[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 25.09.2007 23:36, Dave Jones wrote:
>  On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 05:22:54PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
>   > We should consider carrying the latest ALSA patchset in Fedora.
>   > That way we wouldn't be forever chasing bugs they have already
>   > fixed...
>  
>  Yeah, has crossed my mind a few times, and it is almost entirely
>  isolated in sound/ so has no impact to anything else.
>  
>  We could tie it in with scripts/pull-upstreams.sh
>  I wish the ALSA folks would just push their stuff a little faster though. 
Agreed -- I actually made a bit noise about exactly this on LKML one or
two weeks ago, as even a regression from 2.6.20/2.6.21 I hit was only
fixed in 2.6.23-git and not in 2.6.22-stable.

In case you don't want to get everything from the alsa devel tree and
instead cherry-pick fixes and small improvements I hereby volunteer to
to that. I've never done something like that before, but I think I
should be able to manage that and I suppose its a good area to learn
something new.

Cu
knurd