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

Lee Revell rlrevell at joe-job.com
Tue Nov 7 19:33:53 EST 2006


On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 01:24 +0100, David Causse wrote:
> 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.

How could this possibly be cleaner or simpler than addressing devices by
name like every other OS does?

Lee




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