Re: snd_ prefix for module options

[Florian Bomers <Florian.Bomers@sun.com>]

Sorry guys, I thought you were talking about the snd_ prefix of the module NAMES
:) for the option names, dropping seems the right thing to do - an error message
should be printed when a snd_* option is used.

Florian


Florian Bomers wrote:
> 
> I like it a lot. Due to the prefix I was able to cleanly remove 0.5.x from my
> system, and we might want to do that later on with 0.9, too :)
> 
> And since I don't see any benefit in removing the prefix - other than cosmetic -
> keeping it will save time for distribution's programmers, sysadmins, writers,
> etc. to update their setup routines, configs, howtos, etc. :)
> 
> Florian
> 
> Takashi Iwai wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > so far, all alsa modules use snd_ prefix for each module option.
> > iirc, there was a problem regarding namespace at the time of 2.0
> > kernel, and this was some workaround to avoid confliction.
> > but 2.2 and later kernels have no such a problem at all.
> >
> > so, i'd like to ask you how do you think to remove this snd_ prefix.
> > of course, there is one and only big problem - compatibility!
> >
> > the questions are
> >
> > - whether we should really do it or not?  is it worthy?
> >
> > and
> >
> > - when? now or after 0.9.0-final release?
> >
> > opinions, please?
> >
> > Takashi
> >
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