[PATCH] Fixing most Roland-related devices' USB audio

[Lucas]

On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 10:55 AM Geraldo <geraldogabriel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Em Qua, 31 de mar de 2021 23:19, Lucas <jaffa225man at gmail.com> escreveu:
>
>> Thanks for the encouragement and wisdom.  I hope your additions, and
>> mine, work out in the end.
>>
>
> They will!
>
> A real hurdle with tasking everyone with patching for their devices, aside
>> from having probably long since given up hope for use of the device on
>> GNU/Linux, is the amount of disparate forums they voiced their issues on.
>> There's also the daunting likelihood that select few music creators
>> actually would decide to compile their own kernels to see if a problem is
>> fixed, let alone feel comfortable enough applying a patch.
>>
>
> Recompiling kernels with custom patches and workarounds for regular
> devices is madness. This should be needed only for development purposes.
>

True, but it's much less of a burden on a source-based distro.  I used to
use mainly Sourcemage GNU/Linux, which made changes pretty painless.  With
debian it's still doable, though I think building the packages takes more
time.  On Sourcemage, updating the whole system after a glibc upgrade takes
even more patience.


>
>> I hadn't realized this was a list to drum up testers, or that every
>> change needs to be tested fully.  I thought it was a direct path to
>> possible acceptance for inclusion in the kernel, if reasonable doubts are
>> considered.
>>
>
> Well the Linux kernel has to be somewhat orderly even if the open source
> development model is inherently chaotic.
>
> This should be a list with lots of testers but I'll bet the volume scares
> them off.
>

Yeah, the sheer amount relegated my thread to oblivion pretty fast.


>
>> I hope they'll let me sidestep that huge, unreasonable, undertaking, as
>> my test implicit feedback "fix" for the UA-4FX (which doesn't need it)
>> proved it still functions as perfectly as without it.
>>
>
> I disagree a bit with you. It's not very wise to add unneeded quirks.
>

In this case the quirks to me seem to be Roland/Edirol/Boss devices that
don't need this method, but yes your point is well taken.


> That should mean that for the devices that don't require this patch, but
>> which had been accidentally added, no harm is done.  I can't really see
>> myself as owner of all these devices someday... ;)
>>
>> Thanks again, Geraldo!,
>>
>>   Lucas Endres
>>
>
> Thank you,
> Geraldo Nascimento
>
>>
Thanks again!