At Thu, 7 Feb 2008 07:49:39 -0800 (PST), Trent Piepho wrote: > > On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > At Thu, 7 Feb 2008 14:52:43 +0100 (CET), > > > > > How do I test the driver if it's compiled with the kernel in the alsa.git > > > > > tree? I want to compile the driver against the kernel I'm running now. > > > > > > > > Well, I don't get your point. "git-pull alsa.git" onto your current > > > > kernel tree and make. Then you have the latest ALSA drivers for your > > > > current system... > > > > > > Pull cannot be used. You'll pull also Linus's changes in tree with this > > > command (which might not be wanted). > > > > Ah, OK, I didn't think that your current tree is behind the ALSA > > tree. But surely there must be an easy way to do that. At easiest, > > I'd make a diff of alsa-git.tree to the upstream and apply it over the > > local tree. > > It would have to be behind the current tree, unless you reboot multiple > times per day. What a shame :) > The problem with an out of tree codebase extracted from git (or Hg), is > that once extracted you couldn't use ALSA's SCM on it. E.g., generating > nice patches based on current head, or pulling and merging recent patches > in with your current work. It's possible to extract and merge patches nicely with git. I just pointed the "easiest" way to get the latest code. There must be a better way. Takashi _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
