On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 08:50:06PM -0500, Christopher Monty Montgomery wrote: > This patch was generated against 2.6.20-rc5; it fixes a bug that > cropped up in a late 2.6.19-mm kernel. > > When ALSA's sysfs device creation was converted from using > class_device_create() to device_create(), the fourth param from > class_device_create() [dev] was simply plugged into arg 2 of > device_create(). This causes the device symlinks under all the > class/sound/[node] to point to nonsensical places. Among other > problems, this breaks HAL and all audio software that depends on HAL. I don't understand, where does the symlink currently point to? It looks correct to me on my machines: $ tree /sys/class/sound/ /sys/class/sound/ |-- card0 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/card0 |-- controlC0 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/card0/controlC0 |-- pcmC0D0c -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/card0/pcmC0D0c |-- pcmC0D0p -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/card0/pcmC0D0p |-- pcmC0D2c -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/card0/pcmC0D2c |-- pcmC0D6c -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/card0/pcmC0D6c |-- pcmC0D6p -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/card0/pcmC0D6p `-- timer -> ../../devices/virtual/sound/timer What do the symlinks look on your machine? thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel