Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Apr 2018 12:56:03 +0100 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/8] Fix year 2038 issue for sound subsystem |
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On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 01:26:23PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 9:23 AM, Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz> wrote:
> > We have almost everything hidden in the alsa-lib code for the > > applications and there is the protocol versioning, so we can detect the > > changes easily and handle the new fields in the library.
> I think we are both misunderstanding each other here, let's try > to work out what changes are required in alsa-lib. The idea of > Baolin's patches that you can simply rebuild alsa-lib (or any other > library using the alsa kernel interface, if any exist) against a new > C library and still have working audio.
It's probably also worth mentioning that there are userspaces that don't use alsa-lib at all, at least tinyalsa and salsa (if anyone still uses salsa). [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |