Takashi-san, Thanks very much. It's making more sense. A couple of questions are embedded below. I think you only need to answer then if you think I'm confused which is a definite possibility. ;-)
> > > > Does this sound about right? I may try it out one of these days. > > yes. alsa-kernel tree includes the all files (including Kconfig) > except for OSS driver codes under oss directory. Oops! I thought I was clear up to this, so I want to double, double check. When you say 'OSS driver codes' here, you are speaking of the real OSS that is not part of Alsa, correct? I have not ever built (TTBOMK) real OSS Sound support, and don't want to do so now. I do want 'OSS Emulation' that is offered by Alsa. I get this from the Alsa code and not from anything in the OSS directory, correct? The right answer (in my mind) is that I should be able to delete the oss directory in linux/sound, not enable OSS Sound support when I configure the kernel, and still get OSS emulation support from Alsa. I hope I have not been incorrect about this. > > please remember the difference of alsa-kernel and alsa-driver trees. > for 2.6.x kernel, only alsa-kernel tree is used. Right! The 'drivers' portion of the 2.4 series kernel is now located in /linux/sound. I see my hdsp.c driver under pci. If I needed to do an HDSP 9652 update, I would take Thomas's work and place it in the linux/sound/pci/rme9652 directory and rebuild the kernel and kernel modules. > > also, you can build on alsa-drivers as well as 2.4.x (i fixed this > yesterday). but in this case, note that the kernel configuration will > override the local configuration of alsa-driver (provided by configure > script). > for example, if you turn off the ALSA support on 2.6.x kernel config, > you cannot build on alsa-drivers tree properly at all. > this causes often problems when CONFIG_SND_DEBUG mismatches between > kernel and alsa-driver trees. Certainly. Of course, I'm not a programmer, but I cannot understand why and end-user like me would want to turn off Alsa support in the kernel but still build a driver. I'm trying to be a good citizen. Just give me Alsa and my driver and I'll be happy! ;-) > > also, when the kernel is compiled with MODVERSION, you'll have many > compile warnings on alsa-driver tree, due to redefinition of symbols. > but you can ignore them in general. Way beyond me, I think, but thanks for the info. Maybe it will sink in later. Cheers, Mark ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
