[PATCH] add soundcard device and fix device_file handling

[David Zeuthen]

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.

     David