Re: [PATCH] New snd-audigyls driver available.

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Fri, 03 Dec 2004 19:18:41 +0000,
James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> 
> Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Thu, 02 Dec 2004 22:42:15 +0000,
> > James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> > 
> >>I have updated the snd-audigyls driver.
> >>It now consists of several .c files because the old audigyls.c was 
> >>getting too big.
> >>
> >>Please download from
> >>http://www.alsa-project.org/~james/alsa-driver/audigyls.0.0.20.tar.bz2
> >>
> >>untar that into ./alsa-driver/pci/emu10k1
> > 
> > 
> > How about to create its own subdirectory pci/audigyls?
> > There is no sharing module between audigyls and emu10k.
> > 
> > 
> > Takashi
> > 
> > 
> 
> There are no major similarities between the ca0106 driver and the emu10k 
> driver.
> So creating a new directory seems like a good idea to me.
> The chip on the card is labeled "CA0106-DAT", so maybe we should rename 
> audigyls to ca0106.
> So, the new directory would be ca0106, and the filename would change.
> e.g. audigyls_main.c -> ca0106_main.c
> 
> I think this renaming might be a good idea, because that driver works 
> with the "AudigyLS" and "Live 24bit" so calling the driver the 
> "audigyls" is a bit of a mistake really.

OTOH, ca0106 would be hard to find out that Audigy LS corresponds to
it...

I don't mind to rename it from the technical viewpoint, though.

> So, just take the files, make those simple changes and then add them to 
> the alsa cvs.

Shall I replace the struct/function names from audigyls to ca0106,
too?  Or, would you like to keep audigyls there?


Takashi


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