Re: [PATCH] sysfs sound class patches - [0/2]

[Takashi Iwai]

At Wed, 7 Jan 2004 15:21:37 -0800,
Greg KH wrote:
> 
> Here are 2 sysfs sound class patches against 2.6.1-rc2 (but should apply
> to 2.6.0) that add sysfs support for OSS and ALSA drivers.  This enables
> udev to see sound devices and create nodes for them.
> 
> I've divided it up into 2 patches:
> 	- sound support for OSS drivers
> 	- sound support for ALSA drivers
> 
> The ALSA driver patch requires the OSS driver (due to where struct
> sound_class is declared),

oh, sound_core.c is not the OSS driver ;)

>  and it also modifies the i810 ALSA sound
> driver to provide a symlink in sysfs to the pci device being controlled
> by the device node.
 
it looks nice and easy.  i'll do that for all pci drivers, too, once
when these patches are merged.

> I can provide patches to the other ALSA drivers to also add this
> information, as it's quite useful if you have more than one sound device
> in your system at once.

not only pci but also isapnp devices can provide dev pointer.
in that case, should the driver gives symlinks of each isapnp devices,
too?  a module usually holds one isapnp card struct and several isapnp
devices below it.  but, hmm, it will need far more codes...

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Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>		ALSA Developer - www.alsa-project.org
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