[alsa-devel] Fwd: Support for Roland VG-99 (working code, but could use help)

[Daniel Mack]

On 19.10.2012 20:18, Pete Leigh wrote:
> On 19 October 2012 18:46, Daniel Mack <zonque at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 19.10.2012 19:02, Pete Leigh wrote:
> 
>>> I quickly tested the VG-99 quirk (modified as per Clemens' suggestion)
>>> and that works too, so I'll work on generating a patch as per the
>>> instructions on alsa-project.org.
> 
> Actually, I'm struggling a bit with this. I'm guessing
> (alsa-project.org doesn't seem to say...) that you need to check out
> the release branch in alsa-driver to work on, and do your commit
> against that (master branch contains only a README) but the wiki also
> advises to do a rebase origin/master after your commit. It seemed
> weird, but I tried it, to no useful effect of course.
> 
> As a relative novice, this is pretty confusing stuff. Is there a plain
> step-by-step of the procedure to generate a patch? Would  it be
> acceptable to send the patch against the sound.git tree?

Yes, sound.git is the reference, and your patch should apply cleanly on
top of it.


Daniel