Jaroslav Kysela wrote: > > On Fri, 20 Aug 2010, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > > At Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:04:03 -0700, > > Stephen Warren wrote: > >> > >> I'd like to use/develop-against/patch the ALSA drivers from: > >> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6.git > >> ... > >> ... However, I can't see how to > >> get gitcompile from there to build the sound subset of a complete kernel > >> tree rather than e.g. something like: > > > > See alsa-driver/INSTALL, "Compilation from Linux kernel tree" section. > > In short, run utils/setup-alsa-kernel $YOUR_SOUND_GIT_TREE_APATH > > then gitcompile can be used. > > It's not required. The alsa-driver/Makefile handles both alsa-kmirror and > alsa-kernel trees now. When I check out Takashi's sound-2.6 tree, am I suppose to explicitly specify the checkout directory so that it's named alsa-kmirror now instead of sound-2.6; the git-compile script doesn't check for the name sound-2.6. Should the following be updated to search for more names: test -z $ALSAKERNELDIR && ALSAKERNELDIR=../alsa-kmirror ... or is it assumed people will always set ALSAKERNELDIR? Back to my original question: I did see the documentation regarding utils/setup-alsa-kernel that Takashi mentioned. However, I was put off trying that because it says: If you have the linux kernel tree containing the corresponding ALSA kernel codes (the version must match) and I assumed that meant the version of the kernel source tree that setup-alsa-kernel was to be used against must match the kernel version actually being run, whereas I wanted to keep my old distro kernel and build the ALSA drivers from a much later kernel. However, that doesn't seem to be the case; I grabbed Takashi's latest sound-2.6 and build against Ubuntu Karmic's 2.6.31-22-generic just fine. In the text I quoted, does it instead mean that the kernel source tree and alsa-driver-build checkouts must match. If so, I can whip up a patch to make that a little clearer to me at least! Thanks very much for the help. -- nvpublic _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
