Specifying the order of sound devices

[Scott James Remnant]

On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 16:47 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:

> 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.
> 
Where both are valid choices, a choice should be made and only one
loaded;  if a card is supported by prism54 we should make sure
prism54softmac itself isn't an option.

And vice-versa.

Otherwise we'll end up in situations where they have a prism54softmac
and prism54 card, and the first one to be detected wins both cards.

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
scott at ubuntu.com
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