Re: OSS Audio borked between 2.6.6 and 2.6.10

[Andrew Morton]

Greg Stark <gsstark@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > I would agree with that.  If it's in the tree and the config system offers
> > it, it should work.  And if it _used_ to work, and no longer does so then
> > double bad.
> 
> Er, yeah, it's not like this is a new card that some crufty old driver never
> supported well. It worked fine in the past and got broke.
> 
> > Are you able to narrow it down to something more fine grained than "between
> > 2.6.6 and 2.6.9-rc1"?
> 
> Er, I suppose I would have to build some more kernels. Ugh. Is there a good
> place to start or do I have to just do a binary search?
> 

I'd suggest the first step would be to take the driver(s) from a working
kernel, put them into a current tree and see if things start working again.

If that doesn't reveal anything then yes, it's down to binary searching.


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