From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934281AbZHEMfh (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Aug 2009 08:35:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933122AbZHEMfe (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Aug 2009 08:35:34 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:45303 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934227AbZHEMfc (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Aug 2009 08:35:32 -0400 Message-ID: <4A797C84.2050109@suse.de> Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:35:16 +0900 From: Tejun Heo User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090605) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Takashi Iwai Cc: Alan Cox , Colin Guthrie , Greg KH , Al Viro , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] sound: make OSS device number claiming optional References: <4A79283E.7030202@kernel.org> <4A79296A.4090600@suse.de> <20090805101551.6ee053e5@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <4A794FB9.30403@mandriva.org> <20090805105916.28f84a05@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20090805112649.4a59ce70@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: 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 Takashi Iwai wrote: > 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. If we're gonna do that, we might as well just rip off the pointless 'claim everything so we can use our own module alises' code from sound_core.c and be done with it. That really is the only problem. Thanks. -- tejun