[alsa-devel] alsa git: which version of ac97_codec.c am i supposed to hxr?

[John L. Utz III]

Thankyou Jaroslav!

On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 08:30:23 -0700, Jaroslav Kysela <perex at perex.cz> wrote:

> On Fri, 15 Aug 2008, John L. Utz III wrote:
>
>> Hello All;
>>
>> I feel confused by the presence of 2 different copies of ac97_codec.c:
>>
>>    jutz-gnto ~ # find . -name ac97_codec.c
>>      ./alsa-driver/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c
>>      ./alsa-kmirror/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c
>>
>> worse yet,they are not in sync:
>>
>> Which of these am i supposed to use? am i supposed to change both of  
>> them
>> for some backward compatibility purpose?
>
> Modify the alsa-kmirror code. When you run make in alsa-driver tree, the
> file from alsa-kmirror is patched to retain compatibility for older linux
> kernels. The ac97_codec.c file in alsa-driver tree is just a temporary
> file (not in our repository) used for building. See to .gitignore which
> files are temporary only.
>
> 					Jaroslav
>
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> Jaroslav Kysela <perex at perex.cz>
> Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
> ALSA Project, Red Hat, Inc.
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