[linux-audio-user] Re: Gentoo: Alsa/Snd-usb-audio not working anymore

[David Causse]

On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 11:39:50PM +0100, Atte André Jensen wrote:
> Paul Davis wrote:
> 
> >Maybe users should use names, but apps shouldn't be doing this. They
> >would become totally non-portable.
> 
> Well, I just rolled 2.6.18-rt7 (was on 2.6.15) and the device numbers 
> are completely reshuffled. I would imagine any setup that relies on the 
> device numbers (and not names) would be totally messed up in situations 
> such as these.

IMHO card number should be static and setup by system conf (index=xx
module option), that sounds much cleaner to me.

David.