Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 16:28:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 16:27:05 -0400 Received: from hermes.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de ([129.187.202.12]:27899 "HELO hermes.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 16:26:42 -0400 Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 22:32:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Adrian Bunk X-X-Sender: bunk@mimas.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de To: Vojtech Pavlik cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: PC speaker dead in 2.5.40? In-Reply-To: <20021007211427.A833@ucw.cz> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1210 Lines: 31 On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 03:08:57AM -0400, Joseph Fannin wrote: >... > > There's a good technical reason why the speaker is an input > > device, but hiding it in the menus is *bad*. > > Send me a patch that fixes this - if you know how. IMHO the problem istn't to make a patch, it's more a "policy" question: The problem is that from the point of view of a _user_ it's quite surprising to see the speaker support at the input devices - and if the speaker doesn't work you wouldn't search for an option under "Input device support". From a programmers point of view "Input device support" might be the best place but it will produce much confusion among many users. Is it perhaps possible to move the speaker support to "Character devices"? TIA Adrian -- You only think this is a free country. Like the US the UK spends a lot of time explaining its a free country because its a police state. Alan Cox - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/