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From: Tejun Heo <teheo@suse.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>,
	Colin Guthrie <cguthrie@mandriva.org>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] sound: make OSS device number claiming optional
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:34:53 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A796E5D.2090707@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090805121551.7449f748@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>

Alan Cox wrote:
>>> This makes it worse.
>> Well, the only regression would be the case where you create static
>> /dev/dsp (or else) devices and let auto-loading through sound-slot-*
>> or sound-service-*-* aliases.  Of course, this still works if you
>> load soundcore in some way.
> 
> Unless some ugly cuse hack got there first.
> 
>> What I suggested in the above is to cut off an unneeded dependency
>> between soundcore and ALSA-native stuff instead of hacking soundcore.
>> It won't change anything else, so everything else can coexist as
>> before.
> 
> Agreed - but that is really a separate issue to having something break
> the soundcore by being rude.

Sigh, does the wording really have to be 'ugly' and 'rude'?
sound_core.c itself is a strange hack at this point.  :-(

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-05 11:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-05  6:35 [PATCH 1/2] chrdev: implement __[un]register_chrdev() Tejun Heo
2009-08-05  6:40 ` [PATCH 2/2] sound: make OSS device number claiming optional Tejun Heo
2009-08-05  9:15   ` Alan Cox
2009-08-05  9:24     ` Colin Guthrie
2009-08-05  9:59       ` Alan Cox
2009-08-05 10:14         ` Takashi Iwai
2009-08-05 10:26           ` Alan Cox
2009-08-05 10:45             ` Takashi Iwai
2009-08-05 11:15               ` Alan Cox
2009-08-05 11:34                 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2009-08-05 12:35               ` Tejun Heo
2009-08-05 13:11                 ` Alan Cox
2009-08-05 14:16                   ` Tejun Heo
2009-08-05  9:32     ` Tejun Heo
2009-08-05 10:00       ` Alan Cox
2009-08-05 11:27         ` Tejun Heo
2009-08-05 12:48           ` Alan Cox
2009-08-05 14:13             ` Tejun Heo
2009-08-05 14:29               ` Alan Cox
2009-08-05 16:02                 ` Tejun Heo
2009-08-05 16:33                   ` Alan Cox
2009-08-05 16:38                     ` Alan Cox
2009-08-05 16:52                     ` Tejun Heo
2009-08-05 17:01                       ` Alan Cox
2009-08-06  5:55                         ` Tejun Heo
2009-08-05  7:04 ` [PATCH 1/2] chrdev: implement __[un]register_chrdev() Takashi Iwai
2009-08-05  7:11   ` Tejun Heo
2009-08-05  7:20     ` Takashi Iwai
2009-08-05  7:30       ` Tejun Heo
2009-08-05  9:01         ` [PATCH 1/2 UPDATED] " Tejun Heo
2009-08-05 16:16 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Greg KH
2009-08-05 16:30   ` Tejun Heo
2009-08-05 16:49     ` Greg KH
2009-08-05 17:01       ` Tejun Heo
2009-08-05 17:15         ` Greg KH
2009-08-06  5:52           ` Tejun Heo
2009-08-06  8:13             ` Tejun Heo
2009-08-06 19:58               ` Greg KH
2009-08-07  2:34                 ` Tejun Heo
2009-08-07  4:05                   ` Greg KH

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