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

[Danny Kukawka]

On Thursday 04 August 2005 17:49, David Zeuthen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry for the lag,

No problem ;-)

> > 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?

Yes the normal OSS devices should be only visible with this new kernel patch. 
The global OSS and ALSA devices are visible also without the patch. 

I add a comment to the spec for this.

> > 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
o.k. I change the comments for C99
>  - Needs ChangeLog entry

Must I change the Changlog file or is this added automatically from the CVS 
commit?

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

o.k.

Cheers,

Danny
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