Re: [PATCH] i810 driver update.

Doug Ledford (dledford@redhat.com)
Mon, 28 Jan 2002 21:47:15 -0500


Neale Banks wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Doug Ledford wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>>>Are the fixes in this going to be applicable to 2.2 also (FWIW, 2.2's
>>>i810_audio #defines ``DRIVER_VERSION "0.17"'')?
>>>
>>
>>I'm sure the fixes are relevant. How well they may integrate into 2.2 is
>>another question :-/
>>
>
> Indeed ;-) Alan?
> [...]
>
>>The best I can do it to make a diff between the 0.17 driver version I have
>>here and the 0.21 driver version. Maybe that incremental diff will apply to
>>the 2.2 kernel's i810_audio.c and bring it up to date without any specific
>>back port needed. It's attached.
>>
>
> Thanks anyway, but it doesn't look too hopeful (patch complaints
> appended). I suspect your "0.17" and 2.2's "0.17" may not be the same
> thing (in 2.2.21pre2 i810_audio.c is 51877 bytes and "sum (GNU textutils)
> 2.0" reports "44467 51"
>
> Regards,
> Neale.
>
> $ patch --dry-run < 2.2-i810.patch
> patching file `i810_audio.c.17'
> Hunk #1 succeeded at 181 (offset -25 lines).
> Hunk #2 FAILED at 576.
> Hunk #3 FAILED at 653.
> Hunk #4 FAILED at 1107.
> Hunk #5 FAILED at 1117.
> Hunk #6 FAILED at 1138.
> Hunk #7 FAILED at 1169.
> Hunk #8 succeeded at 1127 with fuzz 1 (offset -248 lines).
> Hunk #9 FAILED at 1278.
> Hunk #10 FAILED at 1492.
> Hunk #11 FAILED at 2175.
> Hunk #12 FAILED at 2877.
> 10 out of 12 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to i810_audio.c.17.rej
>
>

Yeah, there's a vast difference there. I would guess that the difference is
the presence of S/PDIF support in the 2.4+ .17 driver version and none in
the 2.2 version. Email me the whole 0.17 file you have there (off-list) and
I'll see about integrating the changes.

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