Ultra++ installation issue [resolved]

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I am seeing following error during installation

Building module:
cleaning build area…
make -j4 KERNELRELEASE=5.10.11-v7l+ -C /lib/modules/5.10.11-v7l+/build M=/var/lib/dkms/wm8960-soundcard/1.0/build…(bad exit status: 2)
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 5.10.11-v7l+ (armv7l)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/wm8960-soundcard/1.0/build/make.log for more information.
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/sysinit.target.wants/wm8960-soundcard.service → /lib/systemd/system/wm8960-soundcard.service.
Job for wm8960-soundcard.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See “systemctl status wm8960-soundcard.service” and “journalctl -xe” for details.

DKMS make.log for wm8960-soundcard-1.0 for kernel 5.10.11-v7l+ (armv7l)
Sat 06 Feb 2021 01:24:16 PM EST
make: Entering directory ‘/usr/src/linux-headers-5.10.11-v7l+’
CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/wm8960-soundcard/1.0/build/wm8960.o
CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/wm8960-soundcard/1.0/build/wm8960-soundcard.o
/var/lib/dkms/wm8960-soundcard/1.0/build/wm8960.c: In function ‘wm8960_configure_clocking’:
/var/lib/dkms/wm8960-soundcard/1.0/build/wm8960.c:747:15: error: implicit declaration of function ‘snd_soc_component_read32’; did you mean ‘snd_soc_component_read’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
u16 iface1 = snd_soc_component_read32(component, WM8960_IFACE1);
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
snd_soc_component_read
/var/lib/dkms/wm8960-soundcard/1.0/build/wm8960.c: At top level:
/var/lib/dkms/wm8960-soundcard/1.0/build/wm8960.c:1367:3: error: ‘const struct snd_soc_dai_ops’ has no member named ‘digital_mute’
.digital_mute = wm8960_mute,
^~~~~~~~~~~~
/var/lib/dkms/wm8960-soundcard/1.0/build/wm8960.c:1367:18: error: initialization of ‘int (*)(struct snd_pcm_substream *, struct snd_soc_dai )’ from incompatible pointer type ‘int ()(struct snd_soc_dai $
.digital_mute = wm8960_mute,
^~~~~~~~~~~
/var/lib/dkms/wm8960-soundcard/1.0/build/wm8960.c:1367:18: note: (near initialization for ‘wm8960_dai_ops.prepare’)
cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:279: /var/lib/dkms/wm8960-soundcard/1.0/build/wm8960.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs…
make: *** [Makefile:1808: /var/lib/dkms/wm8960-soundcard/1.0/build] Error 2
make: Leaving directory ‘/usr/src/linux-headers-5.10.11-v7l+’

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OK , i resolved the issue by overwriting the content of wm8960.c in the installation directory with the content from

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/waveshare/WM8960-Audio-HAT/6887cb16fc3e5858163b8c414f668a1c540195e7/wm8960.c.

it works now. i am able to install the driver

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thanks for sharing :hugs: