On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, [iso-8859-1] Chris Rankin wrote:

>  --- Takashi Iwai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi,
> > so, i'd like to ask you how do you think to remove
> > this snd_ prefix.
> > of course, there is one and only big problem -
> > compatibility!
> 
> I think it's a worthy goal. It's just noise in
> modules.conf, of course. Irritating, but no more than
> that. What concerns me more is when you compile ALSA
> directly into the kernel. To pass the options NOW
> requires a boot-time parameter list:
> 
> alsa-module-name=snd_this=x,snd_that=y,snd_the_other=z

No, it should be: alsa-module-name=x,y,z . The prefix for alsa-module-name 
is required, because we have collisions with OSS drivers.

                                                Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project  http://www.alsa-project.org
SuSE Linux    http://www.suse.com



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