Hello list, I'm new here so hi, and sorry if I missed out on things discussed earlier. I subscribed to this list because I've been having lost of problems with the USB driver over the past half year (similar to the stuff mentioned in this thread). So much so, that I am prepared to dive into the code and help fixing it.
> > (but still we have a problem of async unlink because prepare callback > > is also in the spinlocked context.) > Would it be fair to say that this driver requires some major rework? Well, to give you an impression of the magnitude of the problem: Last thursday I started Sweep, using my Quattro for output, and it crashed. No big deal there, but not only did the crash lock up my system, it also wiped out the better part of my root partition. That is the kernel just randomly overwrote some files with junk. KDE was messed up beyond repair, a number of files in /etc needed to be replaced and the better part of the /root dir was clobbered. I had a gig the next day and I run a source distro, so a quick reinstall was pretty much out of the question. Needless to say, I did not have a lot of sleep that night :) Although I understand that all parts of ALSA are important and deserve attention, I would like to point out the impact of this situation: the ALSA driver is (afaik?) the _only_ driver linux has for USB audio devices (except speakers). Us usb users don't have the OSS drivers to fall back on, so as long as the ALSA usb driver can wreck an installation, there really is no decent support for USB audio in Linux. Anyway, just a thought. Meanwhile I'm doing my best to learn al I can about the ALSA drivers and driver writing in general. Hopefully I'll be able to make a more constructive contribution to this list in due time. Can anyone give me a few hints on where the 'problematic' areas in the code are regarding USB? So far I've heard about the core pcm stuff and the usb driver itself. Is there any information (possibly written down somewhere) about the major problem areas? Regards, Denis de Leeuw Duarte ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
