[NEW][PATCH] detection of OSS and global ALSA/OSS devices

[David Zeuthen]

Hi,

Sorry for the lag,

On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 21:37 +0200, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I discussed the problem with OSS devices (find corresponding physical device) 
> with our ALSA developer (Takashi Iwai). He wrote a kernel patch to add also a 
> device link for OSS devices as for ALSA devices (attached the patch). He is 
> pushing this patch upstream. I reworked the hal patch for this.

OK, so OSS devices will only show up in HAL when the running kernel has
this patch?

> 
> I discussed also the problems with OSS and ALSA global devices (timer, seq, 
> sequencer, sequencer2). These devices are for _all_ sound cards in the system 
> the same, so we have no direct corresponding _single_ physical device. 
> Because of this I tied these devices to /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer

Patch looks pretty reasonable I think. A few trivial things

 - Please use /* */ instead of // comments
 - Needs ChangeLog entry

If you fix this I think it's good to commit. Thanks again.

Cheers,
David


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