Re: [PATCH 2/2] sound: make OSS device number claiming optional

[Tejun Heo <teheo@suse.de>]

Hello, Alan.

Alan Cox wrote:
>> 1. Merge the weird switch thing and the extra standard chrdev module
>>    alias patch
> 
> Might as well fake the normal aliases in soundcore if loaded rather than
> pollute chardev with it but otherwise I think we agree.

Yeap, that was what I meant by the second part of the sentence.

>> 2. Add to feature-removal that snd-slot/service-* are going away in a
>>    year along with the weird switches.  This allows people who wish to
>>    try or switch in the meantime to do so.
> 
> Yep
> 
>> 3. After a year, drop module loading related code from sound_core
>>    along with the weird config option and kernel parameter.
> 
> Do we need soundcore at all at that point ? It seems phase 3 is "move any
> needed logic to ALSA oss emulation and kill it off"

Yeah, sure.  There's nothing preventing ALSA from directly registering
chrdevs.

>> In the end, the only choice we have to make is whether to keep
>> snd-slot/service-* aliases.  If we're gonna (I don't see why tho), the
> 
> I think we need to for a year or so - and its trivial to do so.
> 
>> cleanest way would be to teach chrdev about aliases.  If not, the best
>> way is to add a switch so that it can be phased out gradually.
> 
> In the mean time if you are grabbing just some minors sound_core.c:chains
> also needs keeping in sync with direct character range grabs because your
> CUSE based device might grab some minors before sound_core, and then it
> appears tears will result ?

Hmmm... okay, will take a deeper look at that.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun