Hi Takashi.

When just now looking at the hg repo I noticed that the isa drivers you 
converted to the isa_bus infrastructure yourself use the driver name 
(ie, snd_gusmax) as the name that shows up in the sysfs tree for their 
devices and driver.

The ones I already did are using the name without the snd_ prefix (ie, 
gusmax) instead which I personally think is nicer especially since with 
the isa_bus the devices are called after the driver (by appending a .0, 
.1 , ...). Most importantly though, those names are user visible and 
therefore become more or less part of the ABI, so should at least be 
somewhat consistent and predictable. Having both

/sys/bus/isa/devices/snd_gusmax.0 and
/sys/bus/isa/devices/gusextreme.0

isn't good. The attached (against current hg alsa-kernel) turns them all 
into the latter format without the snd_ prefix. If you insist I'll do it 
the other way around instead and change the ones I did to also have the 
snd_ prefix. Doing it one or the other way seems important though.

Rene.