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.
Takashi
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
[Index of Archives]
[Kernel Newbies]
[Netfilter]
[Bugtraq]
[Photo]
[Stuff]
[Gimp]
[Yosemite News]
[MIPS Linux]
[ARM Linux]
[Linux Security]
[Linux RAID]
[Video 4 Linux]
[Linux for the blind]
[Linux Resources]
