Re: snd_ prefix for module options

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Wed, 9 Oct 2002 08:03:44 +0200 (CEST),
Jaroslav wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, [iso-8859-1] Chris Rankin wrote:
> 
> >  --- Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote: > Hi,
> > > 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!
> > 
> > I think it's a worthy goal. It's just noise in
> > modules.conf, of course. Irritating, but no more than
> > that. What concerns me more is when you compile ALSA
> > directly into the kernel. To pass the options NOW
> > requires a boot-time parameter list:
> > 
> > alsa-module-name=snd_this=x,snd_that=y,snd_the_other=z
> 
> No, it should be: alsa-module-name=x,y,z . The prefix for alsa-module-name 
> is required, because we have collisions with OSS drivers.

yes, the prefix for the module "name" is good, but not for the module
"prefix", which is currently discussed.


Takashi


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