linux-kernel - Re: easy alsa patches for the stable kernel?

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Date:	Fri, 07 Sep 2007 22:59:07 +0200
From:	Romano Giannetti <romano@....icai.upcomillas.es>
To:	Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@...mhuis.info>
Cc:	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	roger@...puter-surgery.co.uk, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	perex@...e.cz
Subject: Re: easy alsa patches for the stable kernel?

On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 21:42 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 07.09.2007 14:58, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> >>> Ah good.  I added it to ALSA HG tree now.

Thanks. BTW, is anywhere visible the current hg tree? It seems that
http://hg-mirror.alsa-project.org/alsa-kernel/ lags a bit behind...

> It's just this line afaics...
> +       SND_PCI_QUIRK(0x1179, 0xff50, "TOSHIBA A305", ALC268_TOSHIBA),
> ...which afaics is doing nothing more then "if DMI-Data matches FOO then
> apply know workaround BAR". Is that correct or am I missing something
> here (another patch that this one depends on that isn't in 2.6.23 yet
> maybe?)?
>

Your second guess is right. That line is a patch with respect to current
mercurial tree, which is quite ahead of the current kernel alsa code.
Although I'd like to know from where Andrew pulled it, because I was not
able to find that tree on git.kernel nor alsa-project.org... :-)

> Nevertheless let me use to use this moment and say: thx for all your
> work Takashi!

Seconded. I only hope I will be able to continue to find this patch for
the next releases of the 2.6.23 kernel...

Romano

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