[alsa-devel] [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#436502: alsa-tools -> usx2yloader

Takashi Iwai tiwai at suse.de
Mon Sep 17 17:17:29 CEST 2007


At Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:23:36 -0600,
Michael Bourgeous wrote:
> 
> On 9/12/07, Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie at lxtec.de> wrote:
> >
> > Attached is a patch for the Makefiles and an udev rule which should
> > work anyway. I don't have TASCAM US-122 usb hardware handy, so
> > I would be very pleased if someone could test it.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Elimar
> >
> 
> I can't remember for sure, but the included rules file might have
> problems loading the us428control program.  I think there might have
> been problems I encountered with using the tascam_fpga script directly
> from udev, since us428control doesn't self-daemonize.  I'll attach the
> .rules file that I use, which might be useful as an example to fix the
> .rules file provided already if it's found that there are problems
> with udev and the existing tascam_fpga script.  As I recall, since
> us428control was still holding on to its stdout, udev would hang and
> not load any devices after the US-428.
> 
> A better option might be a patch to us428control to add a daemonize
> switch (which, of course, could be as simple as fclose()-ing stdin,
> stdout, and stderr, and dealing with any I/O functions accordingly).

Yeah, I'll add the daemonize option soon.  (The patch is already on my
local tree but I forgot my laptop at home :)


Takashi


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