I tried in the system which is suffering from this bug (Lubuntu Xenial with the kernel
Linux xenial32 4.4.0-11-generic #26-Ubuntu SMP Sat Mar 5 14:22:05 UTC 2016 i686 and I failed with the git command. I replied directly to tiwai, and post a copy here. *Maybe you can see what is wrong* - Should I set up another system, which is more likely to manage with this git command? - Do I need some other tools? - Are there any unwanted newlines introduced by the email transfer of the patch? - Other things (beyond my imagination)? --- Hi again Takashi, I tried this fix according to the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/KernelBisection#Testing_a_newly_released_patch_from_upstream but I failed. I don't know what I'm doing, so it might be my fault. But I have one question. What about the #endif string? Is it matched? See the output from my command line: Klonar till "linux"... remote: Counting objects: 4583735, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (3254/3254), done. remote: Total 4583735 (delta 1999), reused 0 (delta 0) Tar emot objekt: 100% (4583735/4583735), 804.14 MiB | 1.05 MiB/s, klart. Analyserar delta: 100% (3846439/3846439), klart. Kontrollerar om vi fick alla objekt... klart. Checkar ut filer: 100% (52916/52916), klart. patching file /home/olle/linux/drivers/acpi/video.c Hunk #1 FAILED at 432. 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file /home/olle/linux/drivers/acpi/video.c.rej patch: **** Can't reopen file /home/olle/linux/drivers/acpi/video.c : No such file or directory ----- And the rejected stuff: --- au88x0_pcm.c +++ au88x0_pcm.c @@ -432,7 +432,10 @@ static snd_pcm_uframes_t snd_vortex_pcm_pointer(struct snd_pcm_substream *substr #endif //printk(KERN_INFO "vortex: pointer = 0x%x\n", current_ptr); spin_unlock(&chip->lock); - return (bytes_to_frames(substream->runtime, current_ptr)); + current_ptr = bytes_to_frames(substream->runtime, current_ptr); + if (current_ptr >= substream->runtime->buffer_size) + current_ptr = 0; + return current_ptr; } /* operators */ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1551041 Title: snd_au8820 0000:01:04.0: BUG: , pos = 16386, buffer size = 16384, period size = 1024 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/1551041/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs