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

[Punky Tse]

Hi Roberto,

I did tried my very best to provide the kernel source code (and in every 
release) to the users who need it.  But I normally won't test it release 
by release.  Problems usually come out when compiling out-of-tree 
drivers.  And that's why I am not keen on it.

Even if the codes break, you can still find a way to fix it... and you 
have a channel to report it, for example to this mailing list.  That's 
open source world.

Regards,
Punky

On 12/2/2012 5:51 AM, Roberto Grossi wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
>

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Kim-man "Punky" Tse

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