> This patch addresses three problems in the i810-audio driver for
> 2.4.0-test13-pre5.  I will be happy to split it if someone doesn't like
> part of it.  (I see pre6 just popped out, there are no changes to this
> driver in pre6.)

> 1) "DMA overrun on send" - this contains a patch from Tjeerd Mulder that
>    prevents almost all of this.  I still get an occasional one during
>    heavy video activity, the driver was unusable before.  (This is a smaller 
>    patch than the previous flamed patch, it does no format conversion.)

Yeah I have Tjeerd's patches and no quibbles with them

> 3) Add a module parameter to supress powercycling the DACs on rate change -
>    This causes a big pop on the outputs at least for the CS4299 codec in
>    the emachines etower 700, probably others.  I honestly can't find a 
>    reason to power cycle the DACs.  There's nothing in the AC97 spec 
>    that suggests it should be done.  The code is common to OSS and ALSA.
>    I left the old behavior as the default.  Maybe later the default should
>    change if it turns out that everyone wants to force the parameter to 
>    zero.

What I would love someone to do (hint ;)) is to move the 

        set_dac_speed
        set_adc_speed
        powerup_amp
        powerdown_amp

type stuff into the ac97_codec - actually have a codec_ops in the AC97 
for each type.

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