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

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Message-ID: <s5hr6lahwkw.wl%tiwai@suse.de>
Date:	Sat, 08 Sep 2007 01:42:07 +0200
From:	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
To:	Romano Giannetti <romano@....icai.upcomillas.es>
Cc:	Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@...mhuis.info>,
	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?

At Fri, 07 Sep 2007 22:59:07 +0200,
Romano Giannetti wrote:
> 
> 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...

The patch is certainly in the primary HG repo (hg.alsa-project.org).
hg-mirror seems often out of sync, unfortuantely.


> > 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... :-)

It's on git.kernel.org, perex/alsa.git tree mm branch.
You can find the information in the download wiki page of
alsa-project.org.


Takashi
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