At Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:14:31 -0800, Tobin Davis wrote:
Forwarded from the good people at Linuxant.
Tobin -------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Marc Boucher marc@linuxant.com To: Tobin Davis tdavis@dsl-only.net Cc: Linuxant support (Jonathan) support@linuxant.com Subject: Re: Code relsease to alsa. Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:33:03 -0500
Tobin,
As promised here is our current tentative patch (relative to the current ALSA development tree in hg) for merging with ALSA.
It is also available from:
http://www.linuxant.com/alsa-hg-20080120.patch
Naturally the changes are released under the GPL, so feel free to integrate them.
Comments and improvements are welcome.
Kind regards,
Marc
-- Marc Boucher Linuxant inc. http://www.linuxant.com
First of all, thanks for the patch. Now just taking a quick look, I'd like to ask you about the following items:
- Split the HSF modem part and other part. The HSF modem part is hardly to be merged (as you know why), but the other parts could be merged easily if needed.
- Split the rest, misc fixes. If the fix is reasonable, it should be applied immediately.
These will make both of our lives much easier.
And, one more thing:
- Give your sign-off to be merged to the upstream
This is mandatory for untrivial changes. This clarifies the copyright and avoids the possible legal issues in future.
thanks,
Takashi
On 19-Jan-08, at 6:40 PM, Marc Boucher wrote:
Hi Tobin,
We have isolated the modifications in patch form and are currently working to merge them with the latest ALSA tree / submit them back upstream.
By the way, all changes and code under the modules/GPL/ directory (including the hda subdirectory) of our modem driver are released under the GPL, so you would be free to take these fixes if you'd like.
However you would be also welcome to reviewing the patches that we are about to submit. I will arrange to send you a copy asap (should be next week).
Kind regards, (and many thanks for your great contributions to ALSA)
Marc
PS: We could also try to help you getting any missing info on the CX20561 or other things from Conexant...
-- Marc Boucher Linuxant inc. http://www.linuxant.com
On 19-Jan-08, at 1:07 PM, Tobin Davis wrote:
Hello,
I'm the developer that put the current audio support for the Conexant HD Audio codecs in alsa. I worked many hours on this, with testers around the world sending me feedback. Most of the work was done prior to Conexant offering me any documentation. I have since received documentation for both CX20549 (Venice), and CX20551 (Waikiki), but am waiting for the latest info on the new CX20561, which you apparently already have.
I have also seen in your mailing list that you are providing several fixes to the audio portion of my code, but only making them available to users of your code, which requires a license agreement that I believe is incompatible with the GPL. At the least, it prohibits someone like me taking any of these fixes and putting them in the mainstream alsa, where more users would benefit from them.
What I'm asking, is if you could at least provide the audio modifications back upstream to alsa? It would help out far more users (modem usage is on the decline - sorry), and you would have some benefit in that your name would be in the source as well.
-- Tobin Davis tdavis@dsl-only.net
-- Tobin Davis
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