Re: NetBSD alsa and its oss plugin

[Hauke Fath <hauke%Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE@localhost>]

On Tue, 23 Nov 2021 11:04:00 +0000, nia wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 11:55:28AM +0100, Hauke Fath wrote:
>> The kernel patch is against -current sources? It didn't apply to -9, 
>> and I made the changes by hand. The alsa-plugin-oss patch didn't apply 
>> either, and left me completely befuddled (patches to patch file...), so 
>> I did my best to extract the relevant bits and hand-apply. 
> 
> Yeh, the patch is against -current, I don't have anything that can record
> audio running -9 any more.

Once I realized the patch files had DOS line endings (always seems to 
catch me unawares) and fixed that, they applied. The kernel patch 
applied to -9 with offset.

>> Patch files attached (patch-oss_pcm__oss.c in place of patch-ac), for 
>> comparison with your changes.

Turned out bits were missing....

>> The resulting kernel spits 'audio0(hdafg0): device timeout' messages. 
>> Unsurprisingly arecord(1) doesn't do a thing, and xoscope just hangs.
> 
> Quite weird, there's nothing there that would mess with the device
> at all, we're just reading data from the mixer to get these statistics
> for arecord. Are you sure the built kernel works without the patch?

I tried, and: yes, it does.

> Trying a current kernel might not be a bad idea, it's pretty stable
> these days.

Same problem here. I am trying a different machine now, to be sure.

Cheerio,
Hauke

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