[linux-audio-user] Re: [Alsa-user] VxPocket and hotplug - need help getting it working

[Takashi Iwai]

At Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:07:04 +0100,
Asbjørn Sæbø wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 11:32:34AM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Wed, 15 Mar 2006 09:42:17 +0100, Asbjørn Sæbø wrote:
> 
> > > And especially, how does the hotplug system identify the vxpocket card?  
> > > And, is the /etc/pcmcia/vxpocket.conf still needed/used?
> > 
> > No.  The driver has a proper entry, and calls request_firmware() to
> > load the firmware binary files by itself.
> 
> But the hotplug system will need to know which driver to load.  How does 
> it know that?  Does it not have to be specified somewhere?

Each driver has an exported entry.  You can find an alias in
the auto-generated modules.alias such as

	alias pcmcia:m01F1c0100f*fn*pfn*pa*pb*pc*pd* snd_vxpocket

Takashi