Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932077AbVLTVKh (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Dec 2005 16:10:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932080AbVLTVKg (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Dec 2005 16:10:36 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:5545 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932077AbVLTVKg (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Dec 2005 16:10:36 -0500 Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 13:06:18 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: James Courtier-Dutton cc: Adrian Bunk , Sergey Vlasov , Ricardo Cerqueira , mchehab@brturbo.com.br, Linux Kernel Mailing List , video4linux-list@redhat.com, perex@suse.cz, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Subject: Re: [Alsa-devel] 2.6.15-rc6: boot failure in saa7134-alsa.c In-Reply-To: <43A86DCD.8010400@superbug.co.uk> Message-ID: References: <20051220131810.GB6789@stusta.de> <20051220155216.GA19797@master.mivlgu.local> <20051220191412.GA4578@stusta.de> <20051220202325.GA3850@stusta.de> <43A86DCD.8010400@superbug.co.uk> 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: 1149 Lines: 36 On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > > But the non-saa7134 access to my soundcard (e.g. rexima or xmms) is no > > > longer working. > > > > > > Ahh. I assume it's the sequencer init etc that is missing. > > > > Maybe we'll just have to do the late_init thing for at least the 2.6.15 > > timeframe. > > But that's not really a useable fix. The problem is with almost all ALSA sound > cards. Right. Which is why the _correct_ fix is certainly to just initialize the core functionality early. So the fix is certainly _usable_ (and simple, and guaranteed to not break anything, which is why it's fine 2.6.15 material), but I certainly agree that a much better fix would be for a sound core person to walk through the subsystem initializers, and just mark _those_ early instead. Hint hint ;) Linus - 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/