On 2011-04-05 22:57, Colin Guthrie wrote: > 'Twas brillig, and David Henningsson at 05/04/11 13:03 did gyre and gimble: >> As I discussed with Tanu Kaskinen yesterday, we should do something >> about when one profile path prevents another from using the hw volume >> capabilities. However, with Ubuntu a few weeks from release, I went for >> the workaround approach and created a separate profile for the devices >> instead to minimise regression potential. >> So, until this is fixed the right way, feel free to use the attached patch. >> >> Bug reference: >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/671560 > > While I appreciate this is a work around, is it worth committing > (especially to stable-queue) in the short term? > > We'll likely push out stable-queue very soon. If you've got a fairly > recent snapshot for Ubuntu already, then bumping the version to 0.9.23 > should be uncontroversial (tho' version bumps may still be banned by > policy regardless). > > What do you think? > > Col > Good question. Maybe it would make more sense for distro maintainers than upstream. I guess it also depends on when someone actually makes the fix the right way :-) -- David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd. http://launchpad.net/~diwic
