<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 10:05 AM Muni Sekhar <<a href="mailto:munisekharrms@gmail.com">munisekharrms@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi all,<br>
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What small projects would you suggest to a novice with the ALSA<br>
kernel. The aim is to develop a familiarity with the ALSA kernel<br>
source code, and also to submit it for academic purposes.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Sekhar<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>1. Read the documentation for the Linux Sound Subsystem : <a href="https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/sound/index.html">https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/sound/index.html</a></div><div>2. Then try to understand the the ALSA Driver API</div><div></div><div>3. In your kernel source tree under the sound folder/directory you will find lot's of useful source code.</div><div><br></div><div>If you open the /sound/x86/intel_hdmi_audio.h file at the very top you will see what is below:</div><div><br></div><div>// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only<br>/*<br> * intel_hdmi_audio.c - Intel HDMI audio driver<br> *<br> * Copyright (C) 2016 Intel Corp<br> * Authors: Sailaja Bandarupalli <<a href="mailto:sailaja.bandarupalli@intel.com">sailaja.bandarupalli@intel.com</a>><br> * Ramesh Babu K V <<a href="mailto:ramesh.babu@intel.com">ramesh.babu@intel.com</a>><br> * Vaibhav Agarwal <<a href="mailto:vaibhav.agarwal@intel.com">vaibhav.agarwal@intel.com</a>><br> * Jerome Anand <<a href="mailto:jerome.anand@intel.com">jerome.anand@intel.com</a>><br> * ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br> *<br> * ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br> * ALSA driver for Intel HDMI audio<br> */</div><div><br></div><div>All the authors you will notice are from intel and seem to be all south asian :-))) pure coincidence ? I somehow</div><div>do not think so.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Muni in my experience what I have learnt over the years is there will be times when you ask a question and <br></div><div>you will get very negative or straight-up demoralising and demotivating toxic remarks and comments. My advice</div><div>to you is this:<br><p>Have a deaf ear to the obstacles and negative comments, rather use them as motivation to achieve your goals.</p>
<p><strong>Lesson to take away:</strong></p>
<ol><li>Alas! We can’t have a deaf ear to the negative comments that we
receive so abundantly from people all around us. <br>I mean even those who
don’t usually give advice, would try to stop you from doing something
you so eagerly wanted to do, <br>even when they themselves don’t know
anything about it. But we can, however, avoid them or use them as a
motivation <br>to prove them wrong. Yep, use their words to prove them
wrong!</li></ol></div><div>Good luck - Aruna <br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div></div></div>