Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 Aug 2009 17:33:46 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] sound: make OSS device number claiming optional |
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> I don't see how I would be able to achieve the latter with one liner. > Can you please elaborate a little bit?
It depends how much of a hurry you are in, but for the mainstream we can do this
1. Make soundcore also issue the request_module() as if the char minor was unclaimed. Mark the old one as obsolete
2. Wait a year while people adjust their scripts to trigger on the char event instead (and fix the ordering bits for ALSA if the soundcore docs are still valid on that)
3. Apply a patch which makes ALSA use char dev allocation directly for its OSS devices and dumps out soundcore, remove soundcore and switch any other code using it.
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