built-in USB drivers

[Chuck Ebbert]

On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:43:15 +0100
Philippe Carriere <philippe-f.carriere at wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> Well, ehci-hcd is not Alsa maintainers dependent and as can be seen in
> the attached emails, we do our best effort for having the patch
> integrated in the next kernel release. However, such integration always
> requires some times while we are also able, presently (ans since about 8
> months), to propose a patched module for interested users, a fairly
> better way than a full compiled kernel. And such a situation will be
> probably encountered for other hardwares in a near future.

That USB patch was submitted upstream yesterday by David Brownell.

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.usb.general/14869