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  1. Bug #557037
  2. Comment #19

Comment 19 for bug 557037

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EliotBlennerhassett (eliot-blennerhassett) wrote : Re: [Bug 557037] Re: snd-asihpi firmware could be included in linux-firmware

David Henningsson wrote:
> @Eliot: To try to find an answer to the question above, I went looking
> for the asihpi kernel driver in Linus' tree (
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=tree
> ), but I couldn't find it there. Is it there (i e I didn't search
> enough), or do you know why it isn't there?

Sigh. asihpi driver comes from alsa-driver git repository. It is not in alsa-kernel repo, which AFAIK is what Linus pulls from for his tree.

So, it seems that out of tree drivers from alsa-driver repo are packaged into the -backports- package.

As for why this driver is not in alsa-kernel, you might have to ask the ALSA maintainers that question directly.