Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 11 Mar 2000 13:02:13 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Sound drivers fixes for pre-patch-2.3.51-2 |
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On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 01:18:09PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Miles Lane wrote: > > > > On the usermode side of things, will your changes > > (moving the sound variable specification out of the > > kernel even when the driver is compiled into the > > kernel) make it possible to modify usermode sound > > configuration tools like sndconfig to determine the > > usable settings and then rerun LILO to install them? > > Why the sound drivers can't be bothered to try to autodetect like ALL the > other Linux drivers is something I've never found out. > > It's not at all different from some ne2000 network card clone, yet for > some reason the sound drivers can't use "probe_irq_on()" and > "probe_irq_off()", to just get the interrupt without all this crap. > Incredible. Instead you have to know what interrupt they are on. > > I don't get it. The sound layer just isn't very good at even simple things > like this.
The problem is the OSS cruft. The isa drivers are all build with the OSS 'framework' to work on different unices and not native linux. I have begun to cleanup this mess and get the isa drivers more like linux native. I have done some sipmle things, but it's a long way ...
Christoph
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