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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