Re: [Alsa-devel] [RFC: 2.6 patch] Makefile: sound/ must come before drivers/

[Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>]

On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 08:47:09PM +0000, 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.
> > >
> > >		Linus
> > >
> > 
> > But that's not really a useable fix. The problem is with almost all ALSA 
> > sound cards.
> 
> No, inside sound/ it's working due to the link order.
> 
> Thinking about this, what about the patch below?
>
> -drivers-y	:= drivers/ sound/
> +drivers-y	:= sound/ drivers/

It might break the "video" subsystem, because we have a lowlevel code 
for radio tuners in our code.

Basically, everything from /sound/core tree should be initialized at first 
before any lowlevel driver is loaded, except /sound/core/oss and
/sound/core/seq/oss subtrees.

						Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, SUSE Labs
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