Re: bug in ens1371/ens1370 joystick driver

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Thu, 23 Oct 2003 16:23:26 -0300,
Juan Linietsky wrote:
> 
> On Thursday 23 October 2003 04:14, you wrote:
> > Juan Linietsky wrote:
> > > The ens1371 driver takes a joystick_port parameter with range 1..8
> > > but that same parameter is them put into a switch to detect io port
> > > values like 0x200, 0x208, etc. so the joystick will never be detected.
> >
> > ens1370.c says:
> > MODULE_PARM(joystick_port, "1-" __MODULE_STRING(SNDRV_CARDS) "i");
> > MODULE_PARM_DESC(joystick_port, "Joystick port address.");
> > MODULE_PARM_SYNTAX(joystick_port, SNDRV_ENABLED
> > 	",allows:{{0},{0x200},{0x208},{0x210},{0x218}},dialog:list");
> >
> > The range 1..8 means that it's possible to specify a parameter value
> > for each of the up to 8 cards (SNDRV_CARDS is defined as 8). The
> > parameter itself takes the correct values.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Clemens
> 
> this is still not very helpful, as modinfo -p only returns:
> 
> joystick_port int array (min = 1, max = 8), description "Joystick port
> address."
> 
> how are you supposed to know that you can only enter 0x200,0x208,etc?

RTFM :)
alsa-kernel/Documentation/Joystick.txt.


> Specially when in the OSS driver you do:
> 
> modprobe es1371 joystick=1
> 
> and it works flawlessly

ok, i'll add more code...


Takashi


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