Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751395AbWCMDxp (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Mar 2006 22:53:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751326AbWCMDxp (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Mar 2006 22:53:45 -0500 Received: from viper.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.4]:51111 "HELO viper.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751395AbWCMDxp (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Mar 2006 22:53:45 -0500 Subject: Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: 2.6.15-rt20, "bad page state", jackd (alsa 1.0.10 vs. recent kernels) From: Lee Revell To: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano Cc: Nick Piggin , cc@ccrma.Stanford.EDU, Takashi Iwai , alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Ingo Molnar , Heiko Carstens , Steven Rostedt , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <1142221144.7471.51.camel@cmn3.stanford.edu> References: <1141846564.5262.20.camel@cmn3.stanford.edu> <20060309084746.GB9408@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <1141938488.22708.28.camel@cmn3.stanford.edu> <4410B2D7.4090806@yahoo.com.au> <1141958866.22708.69.camel@cmn3.stanford.edu> <441109BC.9070705@yahoo.com.au> <1142016627.6124.33.camel@cmn3.stanford.edu> <44121351.2050703@yahoo.com.au> <1142210977.7471.27.camel@cmn3.stanford.edu> <4414DBFE.1050400@yahoo.com.au> <1142220385.7471.46.camel@cmn3.stanford.edu> <1142220716.25358.273.camel@mindpipe> <1142221144.7471.51.camel@cmn3.stanford.edu> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 22:53:41 -0500 Message-Id: <1142222022.25358.277.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.5.92 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1020 Lines: 26 On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 19:39 -0800, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: > On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 22:31 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > > > Older ALSA with a newer kernel has never been supported. Why would you > > want to replace the ALSA in the kernel with an old version? > > Because it is not an older version? > "cat /proc/asound/version" for the 2.6.15 in kernel tree prints this: > Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.10rc3 > That should be older than 1.0.10 final. Ah, sorry. Then you're right, this patch must have slipped through the cracks. > (plus 1.0.10 has drivers that are not yet in the kernel tree AFAIK) Yeah I never liked this practice, I think all ALSA drivers should be in the kernel. IMHO an immature driver is better than no driver. Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/