Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Mar 2006 15:49:11 +0200 | From | Takashi Iwai <> | Subject | Re: [Alsa-devel] [ALSA] AdLib FM card driver |
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At Mon, 27 Mar 2006 15:15:12 +0200, Rene Herman wrote: > > Clemens Ladisch wrote: > > > Rene Herman wrote: > > >> I also stuck a very tiny HOWTO in ALSA-Configuration.txt, assuming > >> quite a few people would have no idea how to operate the thing, > >> even if they do happen across a card. Is it okay there? > > > > It should probably go into a seperate file below Documentation/. > > Probably. Documentation/sound/alsa/adlib.txt is ofcourse okay but I saw > a few other remark type things in ALSA-Configuration as well. Seeing as > how it's very small, and given the tendency of Documentation/ to not be > updated alongside code itself, I thought I'd try to get away with just > keeping things in the one file...
Yes, it's not so big, so could be embedded in that file.
> > I think at least the port address for the first card should be > > defaulted to 0x388. > > No, you never want to autoprobe ISA due to the non-discoverability of > the old non-PnP ISA bus. If you just start poking at addresses you might > touch something sensitive. The generic example of this is screwing over > a Novell NIC and while there are still some ALSA drivers that do ISA > autoprobing (es1688, es18xx, gus, opti9xx, sb8, sb16) this has been > verboten in the tree in general for some time now. > > Hardcoding addresses and probing there might be a bit more userfriendly > but people who install an 8-bit ISA AdLib FM in this day and age are > likely not the type to care deeply about userfriendlyness anyway... > > Note lastly that the adlib_card OSS driver also needed the address > passed in.
OK, we'd need an autoprobe if the old system were capable, but it's not the case.
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