Bug 61699 – alsa-driver 1.0.6a does not load powermac driver

• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description blubbfisch 2004-08-25 14:44:49 UTC]

dmesg:

snd_powermac: Unknown symbol num_controls

fix from alsa-devel ML:

At Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:45:47 +0200 (CEST),
Giuliano Pochini wrote:
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> (Sorry if you already received this message, but all mail I
> send to alsa-devel from my ISP's smtp server bounces. I'm
> sending this through the server at work)

It's already fixed.  Replace num_controls() with ARRAY_SIZE().




Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. alsasound start
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
snd-powermac doesn't load, sound doesn't work

Expected Results:  
driver shouold load and work

[Comment 1 blubbfisch 2004-09-06 17:29:51 UTC]

Created attachment 39098 [details, diff]
patch to current cvs

patch to current cvs of the ppc part of the alsa-driver. Now it works again.

[Comment 2 Pieter Van den Abeele (RETIRED) 2004-09-24 15:20:55 UTC]

Thnxs for the patch. Did you also report this problem and patch upstream?

[Comment 3 Pieter Van den Abeele (RETIRED) 2004-09-24 16:35:34 UTC]

I have reported this problem/fix upstream.

[Comment 4 blubbfisch 2004-09-24 17:23:20 UTC]

sorry I didn't reply earlier, a runaway cronjob killed my machine while I was writing... (somebody give me mroe RAM!)

The fix is in kernel 2.6.9-rc2, so I didn't report it.