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 12:19:40 +0200 Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: References: 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: Karsten Wiese Cc: alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf