[alsa-devel] Alsa Driver Scarlett

[Johannes Kroll]

On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 15:49:25 +0200
Orm Finnendahl <orm.finnendahl at 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.

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? :]