Re: [RFC] Pushing device/driver binding decisions to userspace

From: Xavier Bestel
Date: Mon Nov 13 2006 - 05:17:16 EST


On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 23:10 -0800, Ben Collins wrote:
> Also the other case I gave where there is an alsa driver and a media
> driver for the same chipset, is by design. It can't be helped. There
> actually is a case for wanting one driver or the other in the case of
> the exact same hardware, depending on the users desire.

That one looks ugly. Probably the same driver should have a media
interface as well as an alsa interface (like alsa device are also oss
devices, no need to play evil rmmod/insmod tricks anymore).

Xav

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