Specifying the order of sound devices

[Matthew Garrett]

On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 04:38:18PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:

>  1) two drivers are loaded for one card, and the order matters (e.g.
>     bttv, orinoco, etc.)  The order shouldn't matter, this is clearly a
>     bug in the driver and we'd much rather just have that fixed.  This
>     isn't a solution because you may have two pieces of hardware, one
>     supported by each driver.  One of those pieces of hardware might be
>     removable, how do you force the module loading order when the user
>     doesn't plug in the second device until an hour after they booted
>     (and the driver for the first device was loaded).

This isn't always true - see prism54 and prism54softmac, for instance. 
For certain hardware, both are valid choices. However, for fullmac 
hardware, prism54 should be preferred over prism54softmac.

(Yes, there are edge cases where the removableness of the hardware 
breaks things - the fact that a 100% solution is impossible shouldn't 
prevent the 95% solution from being implemented)
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org