Workaround a SoundBlaster 16 OSS bug

[Andreas Mohr]

Hi,

On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 02:27:19AM +0200, Francois Gouget wrote:
> Note: AFAIK Andreas' kernel patch has never been applied :-(
In fact it has been, fortunately, just about two weeks ago...
By Andreas Kies in 2.4.26-pre3.
He'd already patched 2.6.x a bit earlier.
I've been trying to get the slightest bit of attention about that DoS at that time,
but after two very detailed fruitless mails to LKML, I just gave up:
http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0206.0/0087.html
http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0206.2/0033.html
Andreas Kies told me that it seemed that they now cared a slight wee bit more
about small fringe problems such as DoSes in 2.4.x... </sarcasm>

> (now you know how to mount a DOS on these systems!)
Ow, watch your words!
This can be VERY easily misinterpreted as mounting a DOS partition somewhere!?
(in fact I did fall for it the first couple of seconds)

>    Patch the fragment size if it does not match the current sound 
> format. This saves us from trigerring a kernel freeze on some OSS 2.4 + 
> SounBlaster 16 systems.
Crap, I thought I'd sent a Wine patch at that time; it would have been the
easiest thing to do. Anyway, glad to see it fixed now.

Greetings,

Andi (been finishing my wireless driver any single day for about 5 months now :))