From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756696AbZEZR70 (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 May 2009 13:59:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755114AbZEZR7T (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 May 2009 13:59:19 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:48805 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755054AbZEZR7S (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 May 2009 13:59:18 -0400 Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 19:59:18 +0200 Message-ID: From: Takashi Iwai To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Tim Gardner , "Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky" , Hauke Mehrtens , Johannes Berg , "John W. Linville" Subject: Re: ALSA/sound compatibilty package for older kernels In-Reply-To: <43e72e890905260153q59c76842ueb967459bc7353ee@mail.gmail.com> References: <43e72e890905260153q59c76842ueb967459bc7353ee@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.12.0 (Your Wildest Dreams) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.7 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Sanj=F2?=) APEL/10.6 Emacs/22.3 (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org At Tue, 26 May 2009 01:53:07 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > In spirit with the compat-wireless-2.6 stable releases [1], here is an > initial attempt at compat-sound-2.6 [2] which allows you to compile > and install the latest ALSA/sound drivers on kernels >= 2.6.27. Well, the alsa-driver tarball can install the drivers on older kernels, even on 2.2 and 2.4 kernels :) The latest snapshot tarball is found at: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tiwai/snapshot/alsa-driver-snapshot.tar.gz Takashi