Thankyou Jaroslav! On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 08:30:23 -0700, Jaroslav Kysela <perex@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 15 Aug 2008, John L. Utz III wrote: > >> Hello All; >> >> I feel confused by the presence of 2 different copies of ac97_codec.c: >> >> jutz-gnto ~ # find . -name ac97_codec.c >> ./alsa-driver/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c >> ./alsa-kmirror/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c >> >> worse yet,they are not in sync: >> >> Which of these am i supposed to use? am i supposed to change both of >> them >> for some backward compatibility purpose? > > Modify the alsa-kmirror code. When you run make in alsa-driver tree, the > file from alsa-kmirror is patched to retain compatibility for older linux > kernels. The ac97_codec.c file in alsa-driver tree is just a temporary > file (not in our repository) used for building. See to .gitignore which > files are temporary only. > > Jaroslav > > ----- > Jaroslav Kysela <perex@xxxxxxxx> > Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer > ALSA Project, Red Hat, Inc. > > _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
