[elrepo-devel] kmod-alsa update request ...

[Fabian Arrotin]

Phil Perry wrote:
> Phil Perry wrote:
<snip>
>>
>> I've just pulled the 1.0.23 source and it compiles cleanly against 
>> RHEL5.5 (which is still using alsa-driver 1.0.14rc3 kernel modules), so 
>> we're looking good for an update.
>>
> 
> I've built updated kmod-alsa-1.0.23-2.el5.elrepo packages and they are 
> in the elrepo-testing repository:
> 
> http://elrepo.org/linux/testing/el5/
> 
> It's built against kernel-2.6.18-164.el5 and is kABI compatible with all 
> RHEL5 kernels up to and including RHEL5.5.
> 
> I've not had too much joy testing them. On my i386 laptop (Intel HDA 
> with SigmaTel STAC92XX codec), I get a kernel panic and the system fails 
> to boot. Note that because the the package is kABI-tracking, this means 
> all RHEL5 kernels will now panic and the system is left in an unbootable 
> state. Either have a non-kABI compatibile kernel installed (e.g, one of 
> the rt kernels) that you can boot or have a rescue disk to hand, boot 
> and manually delete the offending module(s). This isn't a packaging 
> issue - I see exactly the same behaviour on that machine when compiling 
> and installing from source. You just need to be aware that if a kmod 
> module does cause a kernel panic, it has the potential to leave all 
> installed kernel unbootable.
> 
> Testing on another Intel HDA box (x86_64, with a different codec) was a 
> little less dramatic and passed without incident. In both cases sound 
> was already working with the default kernel driver
> 
> Please test and feedback either here or to the bug tracker.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Phil
> 

Just to let you know that i've updated from my locally built 
kmod-alsa-1.0.23-1.el5.elrepo.x86_64.rpm to the 
kmod-alsa-1.0.23-2.el5.elrepo.x86_64 (from [elrepo-testing] ) and that 
it's still ok for me here ...
Will try though to reboot another time in a pre-5.5 kernel to see how it 
goes ...


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