Re: [Alsa-devel] 2.6.15-rc6: boot failure in saa7134-alsa.c

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>]

On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:

> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > 
> > > But the non-saa7134 access to my soundcard (e.g. rexima or xmms) is no
> > > longer working.
> > 
> > 
> > Ahh. I assume it's the sequencer init etc that is missing.
> > 
> > Maybe we'll just have to do the late_init thing for at least the 2.6.15
> > timeframe.
> 
> But that's not really a useable fix. The problem is with almost all ALSA sound
> cards.

Right. Which is why the _correct_ fix is certainly to just initialize the 
core functionality early.

So the fix is certainly _usable_ (and simple, and guaranteed to not break 
anything, which is why it's fine 2.6.15 material), but I certainly agree 
that a much better fix would be for a sound core person to walk through 
the subsystem initializers, and just mark _those_ early instead.

Hint hint ;)

		Linus
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