Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:34:53 +0900 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] sound: make OSS device number claiming optional |
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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
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