Re: [PATCH] Prevent trident driver from grabbing pcnet32 hardware

Adrian Bunk
2006-01-12T22:00:07Z

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 04:15:38PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 22:07 +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 08:28:30PM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> >
> > > You should change alsa driver (sound/pci/trident/trident.c), rather than this,
> > > which will be removed soon, I guess. And, additionally, could you change that
> > > lines to use PCI_DEVICE macro?
> >
> > This driver is not up for removal soon, as it supports a device that
> > the alsa driver apparently doesn't (the INTERG_5050).
>
> When were you going to report this?

I already reported this as ALSA bug #1293.

The problem is the lack of a tester, and I'm currently inclined to
schedule this driver for removal although this PCI ID is still missing -
either noone is using these settop boxes anymore or someone will
volunteer to test patches.

> Lee

cu
Adrian

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