Re: snd-cs4236 (possibly all isa-pnp cards or all alsa isa-pnp cards) broken in 2.6.16-rc4

[Takashi Iwai]

At Tue, 21 Feb 2006 16:51:52 +0100,
Rene Herman wrote:
> 
> Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 
> > Rene Herman wrote:
> 
> >> I noticed on 2.6.16-rc4 that my MPU-401 wasn't functional, due to a
> >> simple copy & paste error in sound/isa/cs423x/cs4236.c:
> > 
> > Thanks, I applied it to ALSA CVS tree, too.
> 
> The patch Adam sent fixes the ".remove not called" issue. It _also_ 
> fixes the OOPS in snd_timer_free() I sent along, so that one wasn't 
> independent. During testing, I uncovered one more bug though.
> 
> After using aplaymidi (to test cs4236 mpu401), which pulls in 
> snd-seq-oss, modprobe -r snd-cs4236 tells me:
> 
> "ALSA sound/core/device.c:106: device free eee4e000 (from f099153d), not 
> found"
> 
> That then stays until reboot, with a different device address each time.

This is harmless.  The opl3-oss instance was already freed but the
driver tries to release it again just to be sure.

The patch below should fix this annoyance.


Takashi

===

[PATCH] Fix bogus snd_device_free() in opl3-oss.c

Remove snd_device_free() for an opl3-oss instance which should have
been released.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>

---
diff -u -r1.14 opl3_oss.c
--- linux/sound/drivers/opl3/opl3_oss.c	17 Nov 2005 14:11:29 -0000	1.14
+++ linux/sound/drivers/opl3/opl3_oss.c	21 Feb 2006 17:38:41 -0000
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@
 void snd_opl3_free_seq_oss(struct snd_opl3 *opl3)
 {
 	if (opl3->oss_seq_dev) {
-		snd_device_free(opl3->card, opl3->oss_seq_dev);
+		/* The instance should have been released in prior */
 		opl3->oss_seq_dev = NULL;
 	}
 }
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