[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#627152: alsa-source: problem exists with i868 also (linux-headers-2.6.38-2-686)

[J G Miller]

At 22:45h, on Thursday, May 26, 2011,
in message <20110526204550.GC4295 at samweis.home.lxtec.de>,
on the subject of "Re: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#627152: alsa-source:
problem exists with i868 also (linux-headers-2.6.38-2-686)", 
Elimar Riesebieter asked -

> Why do you want to recompile alsa-drives then?

Maybe I have misunderstood the purpose of the alsa-source package?

If the purpose of the alsa-source package is not to compile the
ALSA drivers, regardless of whether they may or may not be in the
current kernel, then just what is the purpose of the alsa-source
package?