ICE1712 driver,ICE1724 driver
Apostolos Dimitromanolakis <apostolos@aei.ca>:

- added the partial support of AudioTrak prodigy 7.1

RME HDSP driver
Thomas Charbonnel <thomas@undata.org>:

The attached patch at last fixes the long lasting firmware loading error
after boot, and includes a small cosmetic fix for H9632 cards (fixes
SPDIF external rate reporting in /proc/asound/cardX/hdsp and amixer
outputs).

RME HDSP driver
Thomas Charbonnel <thomas@undata.org>:

The attached patch fixes matrix mixer and metering problems spotted by
Pentti Ala-Vannesluoma for H9632 cards and gcc 2.9x compile errors
reported by Martin Langer.

RME HDSP driver
Thomas Charbonnel <thomas@undata.org>:

- include support for hdsp 9632 cards and bugfixes for hdsp
  9652 cards.

ES1968 driver,AC97 Codec Core
fixed the compilation with the recent ac97 and info changes.

HWDEP Midlevel,ALSA Core,PCM Midlevel,RawMidi Midlevel,Timer Midlevel
Digigram VX core,L3 drivers,AC97 Codec Core,CS46xx driver
Trident driver,YMFPCI driver,GUS Library,SB16/AWE driver,CMIPCI driver
CS4281 driver,ENS1370/1+ driver,FM801 driver,Intel8x0 driver
Maestro3 driver,RME32 driver,RME96 driver,SonicVibes driver
VIA82xx driver,AK4531 codec,ALI5451 driver,EMU10K1/EMU10K2 driver
ICE1712 driver,ICE1724 driver,KORG1212 driver,NM256 driver
RME HDSP driver,RME9652 driver,USB generic driver
- AC97 code
  - introduced ac97_bus_t structure
  - moved attached codecs to /proc/asound/card?/codec97#? directory
  - merged snd_ac97_modem() to snd_ac97_mixer()
- proc cleanups - removed already initialized variables
- enhanced snd_info_set_text_ops() syntax

Control Midlevel,ALSA Core,EMU8000 driver,SB16/AWE driver
EMU10K1/EMU10K2 driver
- added support for user control elements (untested)
- fixed locking for snd_ctl_remove() function

YMFPCI driver
Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>:

- This patch adds a control to enable S/PDIF direct recording (without
  resampling) on the YMF754.

YMFPCI driver
Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>:

- added the support for the timer on ymfpci chips.

VIA82xx driver
Added EPoX EP-8K9A default settings (VIA_DXS_ENABLE)

ALSA<-OSS emulation
- reset auto-silence in the OSS mmap mode.

ALSA<-OSS emulation
fixed the calculation of bytes.  this will fix GETxSPACE, GETxPTR,
GETODELAY ioctls.

AMD InterWave driver
- fixed the detection of STB board via pnp.

EMU10K1/EMU10K2 driver
- fixed double entries of the same controls.

Digigram VX Pocket driver
- added the missing licesne and descriptions.

USB generic driver
- added the proc files to show ids.

PCM Midlevel,ALSA Core,USB generic driver
- prepare callback can sleep if a flag is given in pcm->info_flags.
- usbaudio driver uses non-atomic prepare callback for synchronization
  of pending unlinked urbs.
- async_unlink option of usbaudio driver is enabled as default now.
- fixed the initialization of pseudo-dma pointers in usbaudio.

PCM Midlevel
- clear the status record before calling snd_pcm_status() in proc read.
  this will prevent to show bogus values when status = OPEN.

Digigram VX core
- added hw_constraint to align 4bytes.
  this will solve the 24bit problem on vx222.

USB generic driver
fix by Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>:

- don't clear active_mask bits until it's clear that the URB is _not_
  resubmitted, to prevent a race with unlinking
- initialize active_mask and unlink_mask each time before URBs are
  started
- don't call sleeping functions in trigger callback

USB generic driver
- clear unlink_mask bit in the complete callback.
- make sure to deactivate urbs before starting streams.

AC97 Codec Core
- added new patch codes for ALC655/658.
- fixed reset wait loop in the resume phase.
- fixed resume of AD1981 multi codecs.

Documentation,Memalloc module,ALS4000 driver,AZT3328 driver
ES1938 driver,ES1968 driver,Maestro3 driver,SonicVibes driver
ALI5451 driver,EMU10K1/EMU10K2 driver,ICE1712 driver,ICE1724 driver
Trident driver
- use pci_set_consistent_dma_mask().

YMFPCI driver
- fixed possible (but rare) deadlock.

VIA82xx driver
- fixed the (syntax) description of dxs_support module option.

GUS Library
Omited to remove old code

GUS Library
Fixed duplicate control IDs (PCM Playback Volume) for cards with the codec chip

USB generic driver
- added a workaround for M-Audio Audiophile USB.
- avoid async out and adaptive in if other methods are available.
- fixed the hw_constraint check for 24bit formats.

USB generic driver
- added async_unlink option.
  the default bahevior is not changed yet.
- added some comments.

I2C lib core
- fixed sleep in lock.  use mutex for the locking.

CS4236+ driver
- fixed the detection of combination of pnp and non-pnp devices.

AC97 Codec Core
Added IC Ensemble/KS Waves ID for stereo enhancement

CMIPCI driver
- set XCHGDAC bit implicitly on MC4/6 models for fixing wrong
  playback on some boards.
- removed 'Exchange DAC' control from such a model.

EMU10K1/EMU10K2 driver
Peter Zubaj <pzad@pobox.sk>:
 - disable routing from AC97 line out to front speakers.
 - AC97 ADC is used only for Mic playback and recording
 - Philips ADC is used for other analog playback and recording
  (Analog Mix Playback Volume, Analog Mix Capture Volume)
 - removes unused AC97 controls (is phone used ???)

Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>:
 - removed the duplicated IEC958 control on Dell's board.

ALSA<-OSS emulation
Fixed semantics in snd_pcm_oss_bytes() function.

OPL4
Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
oops - use vfree in error paths, too

AC97 Codec Core
Fixed cut & paste bug

VIA82xx driver
added the quirk for ASUS A7V600.

AC97 Codec Core
Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
new controls for AD1981A/B/1980/1985