Re: [ALSA - driver 0002219]: snd-mpu401 don't load

Lee Revell
2006-06-20T23:35:47Z

On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 01:30 +0200, Rene Herman wrote:
> bugtrack@alsa-project.org wrote:
>
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > rlrevell - 06-21-06 00:18
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > It must be a kernel bug if the port does not appear in /proc/ioports.
>
> Lee, please note that legacy (ISA/LPC, even PnP/ACPI controlled) hw does
> not ever appear in /proc/ioports without the driver loaded and having
> done a request_region().
>
> By the way, the missing IRQ is not necesarily a problem. An MPU401 can
> output MIDI fine without using an IRQ and if his BIOS does not let him
> assign an IRQ (and Windows does not use one) I guess no IRQ is available
> for it.

So where's the bug?

Lee