[PATCH] add soundcard device and fix device_file handling

[Danny Kukawka]

On Dienstag, 28. August 2007, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 21:09 +0200, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> > On Donnerstag, 22. März 2007, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 09:25 +0100, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > > This was not my plan for 0.5.9, I would only start to discuss this.
> > > > Btw. the change from alsa.* to sound.alsa.* would make also sense
> > > > without !CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED because this don't need to depend on
> > > > the sound card device. This devices are really similar devices and
> > > > should be in the same namespace.
> > >
> > > OK, can you submit the patch again when 0.5.9 is out? I really want to
> > > get that out but I kept getting side tracked :-)
> >
> > Okay 0.5.9 is out and 0.5.10 is almost here! Here the patch again to add
> > the card device to the device tree (nothing more) if you compile you
> > kernel with !CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED. I added the requested 'device_file
> > == NULL' check to the new version.
> >
> > We have this patch in the SUSE hal package now since March 2007 without
> > any problems. We should push this into 0.5.10.
>
> I'm pretty sure this won't break anything so go for it. Thanks.

Don't break anything if you run a kernel with CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED. And as 
said for !CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED we tested this since March 2007 without any 
bugreports in the SUSE hal rpm.

Commited.

Danny