From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Takashi Iwai Subject: Re: snd_ prefix for module options Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 10:48:34 +0200 Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: References: <20021008224446.26961.qmail@web40611.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.4 - "Hosorogi") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: In-Reply-To: Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: Jaroslav Kysela Cc: Chris Rankin , "alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net" List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org 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 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf