Date 23.1.2012 17:32, Takashi Iwai wrote:

At Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:41:05 +0100, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:

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Date 23.1.2012 15:16, Takashi Iwai wrote:

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At Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:11:26 +0100, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:

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The alsa-driver package will not support the kernels bellow 2.6.18 (released Sep 20 2006), from README:

• Vanilla 3.0 to 3.2

• Vanilla 2.6.18 to 2.6.39

  I kept the 2.4 build code, but it is not maintained and definitely, it

will be removed in next alsa-driver versions.

2.4 kernel won't be built since many driver codes need KBUILD_MODNAME.

OTOH, 2.6 kernels below 2.6.18 should be still OK. I'm building the drivers regularly with 2.6.9 and 2.6.16 kernels for SLE10 and SLE11.

I tried vanilla kernels, but there are many things to resolve for recent gcc and make - the 2.6.18 vanilla was the first kernel which works. I believe that modified distribution specific kernels - which includes some newer code/interface - might work ok. It was the reason to avoid a hard-coded kernel version check in configure.in.

Yeah, running an old gcc is nasty, so I'm OK to mention the support status in the way above you stated. OTOH, would be good to mention that the builds are OK with the older 2.6 kernels.

Yep, added.

Jaroslav