[PATCH] - trident cyberblade FIFO status check

[Laurence Darby]

On Sun, 22 May 2005, Alex Deucher wrote:

> On 5/22/05, Laurence Darby <ldarby at sdf-eu.org> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Sun, 15 May 2005, Laurence Darby wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I was getting the audio problems described here:
> > > www.alsa-project.org/misc/vgakills.txt
> > >
> > > It's caused by writing to a FIFO without checking if it's full or not, and
> > > if it is full, the PCI bus locks up for long enough to damage the audio
> > > stream to the sound card.  I've fixed it for the trident cyberblade chip.
> > 
> > Hi again,
> > 
> > I take it that my kludge to blade_accel.c wasn't very acceptable, but
> > still would really like to see this implemented, because for me it's fixed
> > a major problem.  Is there a better way so it is acceptable, like making
> > it configurable with an option?  It was my first ever patch, so I'm sure
> > there's lots of space for improvement....
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Laurence
> > 
> 
> Probably no one has gotten a chance to look at it yet.  Post your
> patch as an attachment to a bug on https://bugs.freedesktop.org
> Then we can track it and review it.
> 


I already have, at
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3304

Should I create a real attachment as well or is it ok with the patch in 
the comment section?

Laurence