Dear Alsa developers,
almost 2 months ago I send a patch making the M-Audio Fast Track Ultra series audio interfaces work flawlessly in Linux except for missing mixer support:
Am 06.07.2010 10:05, schrieb Felix Homann:
This fixes issues with M-Audio's Fast Track Ultra series:
- devices now work at 44100 and 88200 Hz
- apparently, fixes some crashes, too
Unfortunately, the patch didn't make it into Alsa so far. Clemens Ladisch seemed reluctant to apply a fixed endpoint quirk since the device should have worked without in his opinion. I gave him all the requested information to see what was happening without the fixed endpoint quirk. I never heard back from him again.
So, could someone in charge kindly tell me why the patch didn't make it into Alsa? What's missing, what's wrong?
If it's just the fact that Clemens doesn't like the fixed endpoint quirk please find attached a different patch yielding the same result. (Against Linux 2.6.35. It's again from dhubsith who posted it on the M-Audio forum. He would sign it off if requested - on the other hand it is already derived work of the Alsa sources).
And please, if it's not going anywhere, please tell us "laymen, volunteer Alsa helpers" about the reasons.
The current situation is most frustrating: We know how to make the device work (much better than in Windows, btw) but we don't know why we have to patch alsa again and again.
Thanks in advance,
Felix