[Voyage-linux] Please include M2Tech hiFace USB to SPDIF converter driver

[Roberto Grossi]

Dear Punky,

I partially disagree... while I understand your point on ALSA, I do not see
why you cannot let people that can compile the kernel module to do this by
themselves. I had no problems with ubuntu for example. If you see a couple
of my previous posts (e.g. that of Mon Nov 5 12:15:13 HKT 2012), I
downloaded your source tree code but it was bugged since it did not allowed
to compile kernel modules:

change the content of

   /usr/src/linux-source-3.2.17-voyage/include/generated/utsrelease.h
as
   #define UTS_RELEASE "3.2.17-voyage"


To sum up:

- ok to ask the author of the hiface1 driver to integrate it into ALSA
- please let us put into conditions of compiling kernel modules by
themselves (I'm using mpdpup for this reason)

Thanks
Roberto



On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:39 PM, Punky Tse <punkytse at punknix.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> While it is technically possible to include the hiface driver to Voyage
> MPD, I prefer to not do so.
>
> For out-of-tree kernel driver like this one, it will get unmaintained and
> be incompatible when the times goes by, after new Linux kernel is released.
>  If I include this driver now, it is a short term solution to satisfy
> user's need and is not sustainable.  It also gives false perception to
> users that the driver will be supported by Voyage MPD forever.
>
> My recommendation to this is to ask the driver author to contact ALSA
> community to include his work to ALSA and Linux kernel ASAP. Then the
> driver would get long term support automatically.  When Voyage MPD get
> updated to a newer kernel (as always be), the driver will be included
> automatically.
>
> Regards,
> Punky
>
>
>
> On 11/30/2012 1:59 PM, 이용훈 wrote:
>
>> I need that Voyage MPD supports the M2Tech hiFace USB to SPDIF converter
>>
>> Many hiFace user use Voyage Mpd
>>
>> Please include M2Tech hiFace USB to SPDIF converter driver to Voyage Mpd
>>
>> Here is driver source
>>
>>   https://github.com/panicking/**snd-usb-asyncaudio/wiki<https://github.com/panicking/snd-usb-asyncaudio/wiki>
>>
>>  --
>
> Regards,
> Kim-man "Punky" Tse
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