On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 01:39:06PM -0800, Miles Lane wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Of course, this is what all users and admins really want
> and need. Christoph, have you given this much thought?
> Are there substantive obstacles to getting autodetection
> working?
>
> At the very least, though, can we get the functionality
> I suggested implemented as a stop-gap measure? The things
> I suggested should be pretty easy to put in. I suppose I
> could even take a shot at it myself, although it would be
> my first attempt at hacking the config files.
I'll try, I make a patch, that implements something like default ressources.
I would be much better to have pnp in all drivers, but his needs to extra work
(no big problem, but you need the isapnp ids).
Christoph
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