From: Tejun Heo <teheo@suse.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>,
Colin Guthrie <cguthrie@mandriva.org>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] sound: make OSS device number claiming optional
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:34:53 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A796E5D.2090707@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090805121551.7449f748@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Alan Cox wrote:
>>> This makes it worse.
>> Well, the only regression would be the case where you create static
>> /dev/dsp (or else) devices and let auto-loading through sound-slot-*
>> or sound-service-*-* aliases. Of course, this still works if you
>> load soundcore in some way.
>
> Unless some ugly cuse hack got there first.
>
>> What I suggested in the above is to cut off an unneeded dependency
>> between soundcore and ALSA-native stuff instead of hacking soundcore.
>> It won't change anything else, so everything else can coexist as
>> before.
>
> Agreed - but that is really a separate issue to having something break
> the soundcore by being rude.
Sigh, does the wording really have to be 'ugly' and 'rude'?
sound_core.c itself is a strange hack at this point. :-(
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-05 11:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-05 6:35 [PATCH 1/2] chrdev: implement __[un]register_chrdev() Tejun Heo
2009-08-05 6:40 ` [PATCH 2/2] sound: make OSS device number claiming optional Tejun Heo
2009-08-05 9:15 ` Alan Cox
2009-08-05 9:24 ` Colin Guthrie
2009-08-05 9:59 ` Alan Cox
2009-08-05 10:14 ` Takashi Iwai
2009-08-05 10:26 ` Alan Cox
2009-08-05 10:45 ` Takashi Iwai
2009-08-05 11:15 ` Alan Cox
2009-08-05 11:34 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2009-08-05 12:35 ` Tejun Heo
2009-08-05 13:11 ` Alan Cox
2009-08-05 14:16 ` Tejun Heo
2009-08-05 9:32 ` Tejun Heo
2009-08-05 10:00 ` Alan Cox
2009-08-05 11:27 ` Tejun Heo
2009-08-05 12:48 ` Alan Cox
2009-08-05 14:13 ` Tejun Heo
2009-08-05 14:29 ` Alan Cox
2009-08-05 16:02 ` Tejun Heo
2009-08-05 16:33 ` Alan Cox
2009-08-05 16:38 ` Alan Cox
2009-08-05 16:52 ` Tejun Heo
2009-08-05 17:01 ` Alan Cox
2009-08-06 5:55 ` Tejun Heo
2009-08-05 7:04 ` [PATCH 1/2] chrdev: implement __[un]register_chrdev() Takashi Iwai
2009-08-05 7:11 ` Tejun Heo
2009-08-05 7:20 ` Takashi Iwai
2009-08-05 7:30 ` Tejun Heo
2009-08-05 9:01 ` [PATCH 1/2 UPDATED] " Tejun Heo
2009-08-05 16:16 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Greg KH
2009-08-05 16:30 ` Tejun Heo
2009-08-05 16:49 ` Greg KH
2009-08-05 17:01 ` Tejun Heo
2009-08-05 17:15 ` Greg KH
2009-08-06 5:52 ` Tejun Heo
2009-08-06 8:13 ` Tejun Heo
2009-08-06 19:58 ` Greg KH
2009-08-07 2:34 ` Tejun Heo
2009-08-07 4:05 ` Greg KH
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