Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: 2.6.15-rt20, "bad page state", jackd(alsa 1.0.10 vs. recent kernels)

From: Lee Revell
Date: Sun Mar 12 2006 - 22:29:38 EST


On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 19:26 -0800, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 13:42 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> >
> > > Well, I found it. Finally. I diffed memalloc.c in the alsa kernel tree
> > > with alsa stable 1.0.10 and googled for the obvious two chunks that
> > > stood out :-)
> > >
> >
> > Well, good work on tracking it down. I guess you should forward
> > forward your patch to the ALSA guys.
>
> It fixes 1.0.10 with recent kernels but I guess 1.0.10 is old so maybe
> it will not get patched (just a guess) - what would that be, 1.0.10a?.
> 1.0.11rc3 did not trigger the problem in a quick test but I could swear
> it did before, I'll have to retest again tomorrow (maybe it was
> happening with a different card).

Older ALSA with a newer kernel has never been supported. Why would you
want to replace the ALSA in the kernel with an old version?

Lee

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