On 2014-09-16 16:10, Johannes Kroll wrote:
On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 15:49:25 +0200 Orm Finnendahl orm.finnendahl@selma.hfmdk-frankfurt.de wrote:
Am Dienstag, den 16. September 2014 um 15:22:27 Uhr (+0200) schrieb Johannes Kroll:
I guess I'll need to find the time to port the patch to a recent kernel when I upgrade, unless someone else does it first.
The patch still works on our recent kernels (we are on debian testing with a 3.14-2 kernel), atm there is no porting necessary. I can also confirm that the driver has no known issues on our systems (we use a couple of Scarlett 18i20 in different configurations). It would be great, though if the patch could get integrated into alsa. At the moment it is quite painful for our students with linux laptops as they have to reapply the patch on every upgrade.
A tip could be to use the DKMS infrastructure, which recompiles itself on kernel upgrades.
Oh, I see. I'm all for integrating this patch into mainline. But I have never done such a thing, so I don't know how much effort it would be. I guess it would be a simple thing to do for a routine Alsa developer. Anyone? :]
Well, as a first check: Do we have means to contact Tobias Hoffman, and possibly other contributors? Having their sign-off would be a good start...