From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rene Herman Subject: Re: [PATCH] sound/isa: kill pnp_resource_change. Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:33:53 +0100 Message-ID: <47504981.2080804@keyaccess.nl> References: <474E1189.9030701@keyaccess.nl> <200711290920.05010.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> <474EF871.7090400@gmail.com> <200711291230.24323.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> <474F5DFC.6040507@keyaccess.nl> <4750434F.2080603@keyaccess.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtpq2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl (smtpq2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl [213.51.146.201]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20898103800 for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:34:30 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: Takashi Iwai Cc: Andrew Morton , ALSA devel , "yakui.zhao" , "Li, Shaohua" , Thomas Renninger , Alan Cox , Bjorn Helgaas List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On 30-11-07 17:27, Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:07:27 +0100, > Rene Herman wrote: >> By the way, eventually I'd in fact probably like to move some of the drivers >> that now still support legacy ISA over to PnP only. After all, chips such as >> the CMI8330, CS4232+, ES1869+ and OPL3SA2 _are_ PnP only chips. >> >> Certainly for CS4232+ and ES1869+ that can't be done currently as we know >> people are in fact using isapnp=0 to work around PnPBIOS issues but from the >> previous report there it seemed that might actually just consist of the BIOS >> claiming no resource change is possible, which pnp_activate_dev (through >> pnp_autoconfig_dev) insist on anyway. This would be something to fix inside >> PnP instead... > > Well, I'm not sure about that. Certainly there are some users that > use isapnp=no with explicit parameters. Yes, currently, but as said, we might be able to al least make sure they don't _need_ to do that at the PnP layer after which it becomes somewhat debatable at least. But yes, sure, not now, once, maybe, perhaps, ... >> Anyways, here's just a further Documentation update. You once told me to >> start new threads for patches, but that seems clumsy now... :-| > > Thanks. It seems that people do care more on explanations about the > removal of options. Could you add that, too? > Just mention about sysfs as alternative way to change the > parameters... Yes. Documentation/pnp.txt wants to be a little more verbose after which ALSA documentation can refer to it. I'll cook something up... Rene.