From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760215AbYEQVcW (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 May 2008 17:32:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759611AbYEQVcL (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 May 2008 17:32:11 -0400 Received: from testure.choralone.org ([194.9.77.134]:46970 "EHLO testure.choralone.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752854AbYEQVcJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 May 2008 17:32:09 -0400 Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 17:32:31 -0400 From: Dave Jones To: Stas Sergeev Cc: Takashi Iwai , Theodore Tso , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Roberto Oppedisano Subject: Re: [Bug #10679] 2.6.26-rc1 regression: e5e1d3cb20034a3cbcfff1f0bae12201aa2ce17e breaks artsd Message-ID: <20080517213231.GA31440@codemonkey.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Stas Sergeev , Takashi Iwai , Theodore Tso , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Roberto Oppedisano References: <88YBFoyd1CN.A._sF.Ov1JIB@chimera> <20080514212011.GH7054@mit.edu> <20080515130654.GC18825@mit.edu> <20080517204725.GA11460@codemonkey.org.uk> <482F47DC.60505@aknet.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <482F47DC.60505@aknet.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 01:02:20AM +0400, Stas Sergeev wrote: > Hello. > > Dave Jones wrote: > > More seriously, it doesn't seem that there's any way we can build > > this driver modular without it screwing up already working systems > > unless we cripple its MODULE_ALIAS to not autoload, allowing users > Maybe it is possible to adjust the > /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf.dist > of module-init-tools and add there > something like the following? > options snd-pcsp index=10 > It will then never became a default > driver. Unless someone has 10 sound cards :-) (Sounds bizarre, but I never tire of seeing some of the creative situations our users get themselves into). Something like this is probably the only real supportable way to do it though. It would be great if alsa took something like -1 to mean 'never make this default'. But until that lands in a module-init-tools update, we're kind of stuck. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk