Messages in this thread |  | | From | Markus Gutschke <> | Subject | Re: IRQ, I/O and DMA identifiers as sound module parameters? | Date | 4 Feb 1997 09:52:45 +0100 |
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Colm Buckley <cbuckley@cs.tcd.ie> writes: > Would it be possible to make these parameters passable as MODULE_PARMs > to the sound module, so that they could be specified at boot time? It > would be a great boost to the flexibility of the sound subsystem if they > could, allowing greater variety in the types of sound cards supported.
It used to be possible to specify these parameters on the commandline for "insmod" (or in your "/etc/conf.modules" file), but Hannu removed the documentation somewhere in the 2.0.x release cycle. I believe, he did not remove the code, though. So just dig out an old kernel release and read "linux/drivers/sound/Readme.linux" and/or "linux/drivers/sound/Readme.modules" (I forgot, which of this files contained the documentation of the parameters).
BTW, I do not think that it was a good idea to retract this information. While Hannu was right in saying that this much flexibility is usually not required, there are still many cases, where it would be very convenient to allow for easy run-time configurability.
Markus
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