[alsa-devel] Help with Creative's X-Fi drivers

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James Pearson пишет:
> I know the ALSA team don't support Creative's X-Fi drivers, but maybe 
> someone could help with this issue:
>
> I've managed to 'backport' Creative's recently GPL'd drivers to run on a 
> CentOS4 kernel with ALSA 1.0.15 - the changes to the code were minor, 
> but one thing I'm not sure about is, in ctpcm.c it has:
>
> static int ct_pcm_timer_stop(struct ct_atc_pcm *apcm)
> {
>          unsigned long flags;
>
>          CTDPF("%s is called\n", __func__);
>
>          spin_lock_irqsave(&apcm->timer_lock, flags);
>          apcm->stop_timer = 1;
>          del_timer(&apcm->timer);
>          spin_unlock_irqrestore(&apcm->timer_lock, flags);
>
>          try_to_del_timer_sync(&apcm->timer);
>
>          return 0;
> }
>
>
> The CentOS4/RHEL4 2.6.9 kernel doesn't have try_to_del_timer_sync() - 
> so, should I replace it with del_timer() or del_timer_sync() ?
>
> I'm currently using del_timer_sync() - and the driver works (I get sound 
> out the head phone jack) - is this OK?
>
> Thanks
>
> James Pearson
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It should be ok, my friend used the similar change to complile driver 
for his kernel and it works so far.