Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1999-32,: Re: PATCH: please backout this set of broken changes

# Re: PATCH: please backout this set of broken changes

David Woodhouse (David.Woodhouse@mvhi.com)
Mon, 09 Aug 1999 18:21:42 +0100

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alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk said:
> > > Whoever changed these drivers to use __initcall broke the sound
> > > subsystem.

> > That was me. What can go wrong? Just the ordering of the cards?

> Yep. In my case meaning I set the mixer right up on /dev/dsp0, and ESD
> blasted my main speakers rather loudly 8)

So have something in userspace parse /proc/sound and put in symlinks
accordingly. Isn't this one of the things that devfsd will do for you?

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