Re: 2.6.12-rc3-mm3: ALSA broken ?

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At Thu, 26 May 2005 23:51:58 +0000,
J.A. Magallon wrote:
> 
> 
> On 05.18, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Tue, 17 May 2005 22:39:45 +0000,
> > J.A. Magallon wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On 05.17, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > > ...
> > > > > 
> > > > > Example: go into 4ch mode. Check this control. Then switch to 6ch mode.
> > > > > The Center jack has no sound (it should, shouldn't ?). Check it and voilà.
> > > > > It looks that the logic in the channel selection needs to set this flag also...
> > > > 
> > > > Yep, you're right.  Try the patch below.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Thanks, this patch worked. When in 6ch mode, the boolen flag we talk about
> > > still controls if the line jack is input or output. In 4ch mode, it is always
> > > input. If i chech it, switching to 6ch does not toggle it. They are
> > > independent controls.
> > > 
> > > Anyways. I can't get rid of the flag. It is initialized to on by default.
> > > Isn't strange to have two ways of controlling this ?
> > > 
> 
> Yehaaa, I got it...
> There was a bug in your last patch.
> This:
> 
> +	snd_ac97_update_bits(ac97, AC97_AD_SERIAL_CFG, 9 << 11,
> +			     is_shared_micin(ac97) ? 0 : 9 << 11);
> 
> should be
> 
> +	snd_ac97_update_bits(ac97, AC97_AD_SERIAL_CFG, 1 << 9,
> +			     is_shared_micin(ac97) ? 0 : 1 << 9);
> 
> Whit this, I can control the output just with the 2/4/6 ch mode, and get rid
> of the 'Center as mic' flag...

Oh yeah, thanks.  Fixed on ALSA tree, too.


> btw, why the hell don't you use something as stupid as 
> 
> #define bit(n) (1<<(n))
> 
> ???

I don't think this always improves the readability.


> A side note. In the process of solving all this, I tried to generate a patch
> for 1.0.9rc4a against -mm. I noticed some things:
> - Your code reverts some in-kernel changes related to
>     if (ptr)
>         kfree(ptr)
>   The if is killed in mainline, as kfree accepts null pointers.

Could you point which places?


> - When linking I got:
> if [ -r System.map -a -x /sbin/depmod ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F System.map
> 2.6.11-jam20; fi
> WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.11-jam20/kernel/sound/soundcore.ko needs unknown
> symbol class_simple_device_add
> WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.11-jam20/kernel/sound/soundcore.ko needs unknown
> symbol class_simple_destroy
> WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.11-jam20/kernel/sound/soundcore.ko needs unknown
> symbol class_simple_device_remove
> WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.11-jam20/kernel/sound/soundcore.ko needs unknown
> symbol class_simple_create
> WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.11-jam20/kernel/sound/core/snd.ko needs unknown
> symbol class_simple_device_add
> WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.11-jam20/kernel/sound/core/snd.ko needs unknown
> symbol class_simple_device_remove

This doesn't come from ALSA 1.0.9rc4.  The alsa-driver tree doesn't
compile this module.


Takashi
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