Greg KH wrote:
For such a large patch, it needs a better Subject: and description. What exactly are you doing here? I'm guessing that it converts the easycap code to use the alsa interfaces instead of oss, right? If so, please provide a good changelog entry that I can use.
Subject: Add ALSA sound as a replacement for OSS Code has been added which provides the option of outputting sound via the ALSA interface. This option is exercised by defining the flag EASYCAP_NEEDS_ALSA during compilation. If this flag is undefined the driver is built with its original OSS interface. The audio routines which interface to ALSA are incorporated in the same module as the video driver. In limited practical tests the driver seems marginally more stable with OSS audio (presumably because some improvement is needed in the way the ALSA interface is used in the driver), but there is no noticeable difference in latency and the overall performance with ALSA audio is satisfactory. Provision of ALSA capability in the driver has become necessary because some Linux distributions are choosing to disable both native and emulated OSS. Mike _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
