Bug 66777

Summary:	support older ALSA versions (no use case manager)
Product:	PulseAudio	Reporter:	Pierre Ossman <pierre-bugzilla>
Component:	alsa	Assignee:	pulseaudio-bugs
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	pulseaudio-bugs
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	lennart
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	0001-Support-ALSA-without-a-use-case-manager.patch

Description Pierre Ossman 2013-07-10 14:32:29 UTC

Created attachment 82277 [details]
0001-Support-ALSA-without-a-use-case-manager.patch

This spawned off bug 62865.

Attached is a patch that makes the ALSA use case manager portion optional. On systems with an older ALSA, the UCM code will simply return a failure and the ALSA modules will have to make due without UCM.

Comment 1 Arun Raghavan 2013-07-10 15:23:48 UTC

Is this really useful? Seems regressive to me to add dead code just to support a library version that is >2 years old.

Comment 2 Pierre Ossman 2013-07-10 16:53:17 UTC

Well, as mentioned on the original bug, there are still distributions (primarily the enterprise ones) that have an ALSA that is too old for the UCM requirement.

Comment 3 Tanu Kaskinen 2013-07-11 11:59:06 UTC

The patch is now applied: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/commit/?id=e55f4edaadcd1d71d8d7635ada73439e9aa333c1

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