Re: snd_ prefix for module options

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Wed, 9 Oct 2002 12:15:17 +0200,
Karsten Wiese wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > so far, all alsa modules use snd_ prefix for each module option.
> > iirc, there was a problem regarding namespace at the time of 2.0
> > kernel, and this was some workaround to avoid confliction.
> > but 2.2 and later kernels have no such a problem at all.
> > 
> > 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!
> > 
> > 
> > the questions are
> > 
> > - whether we should really do it or not?  is it worthy?
> > 
> leave it like it is.
> changing would break lots of users module.conf entries,
> which might be the fruits of hours of work.

a convenient method is to check and rewrite /etc/modules.conf
automatically when alsa-driver is installed.  (btw, in the case of
debian, do we need to check another path, too?)

i'm not sure whether it's good manner or not, though.


Takashi


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