linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] Fix a broken/missing documentation at sound

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Message-ID: <s5hd0wdwnyg.wl-tiwai@suse.de>
Date:   Tue, 26 Jun 2018 17:45:59 +0200
From:   Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
To:     "Mauro Carvalho Chehab" <mchehab+samsung@...nel.org>
Cc:     <alsa-devel@...a-project.org>,
        "Mauro Carvalho Chehab" <mchehab@...radead.org>,
        "Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@....net>,
        "Jaroslav Kysela" <perex@...ex.cz>,
        "Linux Doc Mailing List" <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Fix a broken/missing documentation at sound

On Tue, 26 Jun 2018 11:24:36 +0200,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> 
> After running ./scripts/documentation-file-ref-check I noticed that it
> was complaining about the lack of a MultiSound file that used to be
> inside the old OSS sound system.
> 
> That's actually a script, with seems to be needed in order to make
> the multisound driver to work. Also, it contains some instructions
> about how to use the module.
> 
> Granted, this is old ISA stuff, but, as long as the driver remains in
> Kernel, it probably makes sense to keep the script somewhere.
> 
> So, this patch restores the file from the git log, moving it to an
> existing directory and updates the module names. 
> 
> It also fixes the script, as it has some issues that prevents it to work
> with modern distributions (basically, include stuff at C files it
> produces).
> 
> -
> 
> Please notice that I don't have such hardware to test. So, I have no 
> means to know if the produced exec file still makes sense.
> 
> Mauro Carvalho Chehab (4):
>   sound: restore MultiSound script
>   alsa: multisound.sh: fix script to make it build with modern tools
>   alsa: multisound.sh: update module namespace
>   alsa: Fix references to Documentation/.*/MultiSound

Thanks, applied all four patches now.


Takashi