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

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 22:31 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> 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?

Because it is not an older version?
"cat /proc/asound/version" for the 2.6.15 in kernel tree prints this:
  Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.10rc3
That should be older than 1.0.10 final.
(plus 1.0.10 has drivers that are not yet in the kernel tree AFAIK)

-- Fernando


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