Re: Intel ICH - sound/pci/intel8x0.c

[Jon Smirl]

On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 21:49:50 +0100, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Nobody else currently needs to attach to it so why make life needlessly
> complicated.

I just read the relevant parts of the ICH manual. This driver is
definitely misnamed. It should be called an "LPC bridge" driver and
moved out of the sound directory. The config words that it is using
control the joystick and midi, but they also control the floppy,
parallel port, serial ports, MSS, SB16, USB, SMbus, IDE, etc.

Shouldn't the BIOS have set these up correctly, does the driver really
need to mess with them?

I also don't see how this is related to hotplug. Just because a LPC
bridge is plugged in doesn't mean that I should immediatle enable
joystick/midi ports, what if I already have those ports on a different
device?

-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxx
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