Hi, > I think the original intention was to deprecate -soundhw altogether, and > only use -device in new configs. However that was problematic with some > special devices, like pcspk and maybe others that are created by the machine > and not user creatable.
Ah, right, the pcspk issue. Thanks for refreshing my memory. 'pcspk' is the by far most tricky one. The device is present unconditionally, -soundhw pcspk only triggers the registration with the audiodev backend. 'hda' creates two devices (intel-hda + hda-duplex), so it is an actual shortcut compared to the longer -device version. Every other device basically is pci_create_simple(...) or isa_create_simple(...), even the names are identical, so "-soundhw sb16" translates to "-device sb16" etc. So deprecating -soundhw for everything but pcspk and hda is a no-brainer, it isn't even a shortcut, '-device' is one character shorter ;) Question is what we do with hda + pcspk. I'm wondering whenever pcspk is actually used in practice ... cheers, Gerd
