From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760947AbYEQWJ4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 May 2008 18:09:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753559AbYEQWJt (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 May 2008 18:09:49 -0400 Received: from mail.aknet.ru ([78.158.192.26]:58388 "EHLO mail.aknet.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754805AbYEQWJs (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 May 2008 18:09:48 -0400 Message-ID: <482F579C.4090900@aknet.ru> Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 02:09:32 +0400 From: Stas Sergeev User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Jones CC: Takashi Iwai , Linux Kernel Mailing List , alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Subject: Re: [Bug #10679] 2.6.26-rc1 regression: e5e1d3cb20034a3cbcfff1f0bae12201aa2ce17e breaks artsd References: <88YBFoyd1CN.A._sF.Ov1JIB@chimera> <20080514212011.GH7054@mit.edu> <20080515130654.GC18825@mit.edu> <20080517204725.GA11460@codemonkey.org.uk> <482F47DC.60505@aknet.ru> <20080517213231.GA31440@codemonkey.org.uk> <482F56A5.7000008@aknet.ru> In-Reply-To: <482F56A5.7000008@aknet.ru> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Stas Sergeev wrote: > for the "movable" index. For example, > the index -2 can mean "use the first > free slot, but move to the next one > when some other driver is registering > with -1 or explicitly to that slot". > Of course I have no idea whether this > is possible and acceptable, but maybe ... and for the obvious reasons this can't work.