Dear Punky,<div><br></div><div>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:</div>
<div><span class="" style="font-family:monospace;white-space:pre-wrap;border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:medium"><br></span></div><div><span class="" style="font-family:monospace;white-space:pre-wrap;border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:medium">change the content of</span><br>
</div><div><span class="" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap"> /usr/src/linux-source-3.2.17-voyage/include/generated/utsrelease.h
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#define UTS_RELEASE "3.2.17-voyage"</pre><div><br></div></span></div><div class="gmail_extra">To sum up:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">- ok to ask the author of the hiface1 driver to integrate it into ALSA</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">- please let us put into conditions of compiling kernel modules by themselves (I'm using mpdpup for this reason)</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Thanks</div><div class="gmail_extra">
Roberto</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:39 PM, Punky Tse <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:punkytse@punknix.com" target="_blank">punkytse@punknix.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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While it is technically possible to include the hiface driver to Voyage MPD, I prefer to not do so.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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Regards,<br>
Punky<div><div class="h5"><br>
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On 11/30/2012 1:59 PM, 이용훈 wrote:<br>
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I need that Voyage MPD supports the M2Tech hiFace USB to SPDIF converter<br>
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Many hiFace user use Voyage Mpd<br>
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Please include M2Tech hiFace USB to SPDIF converter driver to Voyage Mpd<br>
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Here is driver source<br>
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<a href="https://github.com/panicking/snd-usb-asyncaudio/wiki" target="_blank">https://github.com/panicking/<u></u>snd-usb-asyncaudio/wiki</a><br>
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