At Wed, 12 May 2010 13:05:54 +1200, Eliot Blennerhassett wrote: > > Hi Takashi, > > since the acceptance of asihpi driver, and move to alsa-kernel, you > created a couple of patch files in alsa-driver/pci/asihpi > (that add conditional compilation for older kernels) > > Can you tell me how these patches are generated and maintained? > (I guess this applies to any driver with this kind of patch). This is simply a diff against to the corresponding file in alsa-kernel tree. If older kernels require some changes (e.g. ifdef's), we patch it locally in alsa-driver tree at building. In the case of asihpi, it's generated like: % cd alsa-driver/pci/asihpi % diff -u ../../alsa-kernel/pci/asihpi/hpios.c hpios.c > hpios.patch > I think that this arrangement means that my one upstream file needs to > be converted to two files (kernel .c + patch) when I submit updates? If your change in the kernel conflicts with the existing patch, yes, it'd be appreciated if you give the patch, too. Usually I make a patch by myself. thanks, Takashi _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
