On 3/22/06, Martin Stransky <stransky@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The patch was merged to ALSA CVS so you may check the new alsa-driver
(when it comes) or download the affected file from ALSA CVS and merge it
to the latest driver package.
how-to is here - http://people.redhat.com/stransky/alsa
Ma.
Sadda Teh wrote:
> Understood, I'm assuming that the changes will go into the kernel once
> they release their next RC (I hope). In the meantime I'll try to compile
> in the patch myself and see if it actually makes a difference. BTW,
> great kernel compilation instructions in the release notes. Thanks to
> whoever wrote those. Now, I'll go pester the folks at Alsa to get that
> patch upstream.
>
> On 3/21/06, *Dan Williams* <dcbw@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto: dcbw@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 13:57 -0500, Sadda Teh wrote:
> > Might anyone be willing to apply the patch mentioned here:
> > https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=1895
> <https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=1895> (You have
> > to click the Guest Login link to view)
> >
> > I, and probably many others have a motherboard affected by this bug.
> > It would be much appreciated if the fix would make it into FC5.
> > Thanks!
>
> Unless patches are crashers, they likely won't make it into FC5 without
> being in the upstream kernel. Work with the ALSA project to make sure
> that patch gets into the upstream kernel ASAP, and it will show up in
> Fedora quite soon after that.
>
> Part of this is for quality reasons; if the patch makes it into the
> kernel, then it's likely it's good enough. It's also for API reasons
> and maintainability. The less different Fedora kernels are from
> upstream "vanilla" kernels, the less work it is to update Fedora kernels
> every time a new upstream kernel is released.
>
> Dan
>
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