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

[Roberto Grossi]

Sorry Punky if we are pushing too much in this direction, the reason is
that mpd + hiface1 sounds really well :-)

Cheers
Roberto


On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Punky Tse <punkytse at punknix.com> wrote:

> 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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