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Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 20:51:17 +0400 From: Stas Sergeev <stsp@...et.ru> To: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de> CC: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.25-mm1 (snd-pcsp doesn't like DEBUG_PAGEALLOC) Hello. Takashi Iwai wrote: > The case (c) was my proposal. But in this case, the driver will > become likely self consistent; it allocates its own device at init. > In anyway, there is no sexy way to auto-load snd-pcsp (partly because > it's the purpose -- avoid loading the sound subsystem unless really > necessary). That's why I called it hackish. I thought all (or most) alsa drivers are allocating device on init, even though this is explicitly discouraged in the docs. So I was considering this as a possible solution with the minimal drawback. But... as long as the autoloading by default is not needed, and both drivers can be at least built together, and not too much distros have pcspkr built-in, I thought the current solution - having pcspkr as the default but to let the user to choose snd-pcsp, is not all that bad too. I guess it costs only adding a single alias into modprobe.conf to choose snd-pcsp. And I also think _most_ distros do not mind having the sound subsystem loaded by default, but some certainly do. For those that do, the user will have to add an alias. For others - he may get snd-pcsp right away. IMHO this is rather acceptable. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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