Comment 37 for bug 183456

Sorry, but I don't waste my time there. I believe I reported this problem already several years ago, and it was basically ignored or the patch wasn't accepted. To some degree, I understand this because it doesn't address the *real* problem (which is the unflexibility of the kernel memory allocation mechanism), but then again, I'm not knowledgable enough to provide a fix for that (namely a re-design of the kernel allocation). So no-go, and it went nowhere.

If you want to make your own experiences with the helpfulness of the linux kernel team, you surely have my appreciation, please go ahead and report it. For all others that just want to have a working sound blaster and don't care about arguing with the kernel hackers, a patch is here, even instructions how to apply it thanks to Jakob.