Christopher "Monty" Montgomery wrote: > This patch was generated against 2.6.20-rc5; it fixes a bug that > cropped up in a late 2.6.19-mm kernel. > > When ALSA's sysfs device creation was converted from using > class_device_create() to device_create(), the fourth param from > class_device_create() [dev] was simply plugged into arg 2 of > device_create(). This causes the device symlinks under all the > class/sound/[node] to point to nonsensical places. Among other > problems, this breaks HAL and all audio software that depends on HAL. >
There are no device symlinks anymore, so the current behaviour seems correct. HAL should follow the symlink, then move up in the device tree to find a suitable parent. Rgds Pierre
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