[Lucid-lbm] SRU: Make thinkpad-acpi work with lbm-alsa

Jeremy Kerr jeremy.kerr at canonical.com
Thu Jul 1 08:25:09 UTC 2010


Hi Stefan,

> Impact: As we were "asked" to go ahead and get a very recent thinkpad-acpi
> driver enabled in Lucid, which exports an alsa mixer for the hw mixer that
> only exists for ThinkPads. we now have a problem when people with TPs are
> asked to try the latest ALSA from LBM. After installing LBM-alsa the
> thinkpad-acpi module refuses to load as it wants the other symbol versions
> from the kernel.
> 
> Fix: I don't know of any better way than to put the thinkpad-acpi driver as
> it is in Lucid into LBM and build it against the LBM-alsa core. It is then
> thrown into the alsa package which mixes things a bit but I did not want
> to create a new package for that.
> 
> Testcase: Verified that after installing lbm-alsa before caused
> thinkpad-acpi not to be loaded. With the new version this works (and at
> least the wireless card in that machine also still works with lbm-wireless
> installed.

Looks good; will allow thinkpads to use l-b-m without breaking stuff.

Acked-by: Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr at canonical.com>

Cheers,


Jeremy




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