Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 Aug 2009 12:15:51 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] sound: make OSS device number claiming optional |
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> Not really :) The soundcore is only for OSS device files. As long as > you use only ALSA-native APIs, you don't need it. But, currently it's > loaded and initialized just because of the module dependency. This is > no bug but also not an intended feature.
Sure for the ALSA device node it makes sense because ALSA is the mux for it. Fortunately soundcore is tiny anyway.
> > 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.
Alan
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