Specifying the order of sound devices

[Lee Revell]

On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 17:00 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 04:56:29PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> How do you define "Not an option"? The PCI IDs are identical, and it's a 
> valid use case to want to run the softmac driver on a fullmac card.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> That's the difference between the 95% and the 100% case. I believe the 
> latter is impossible, and we should fix the former (rather than leaving 
> things in the current state, where the entire world is broken). We have 
> the same issue with ahci and ata_piix, though that one's arguably a 
> hardware bug in the case that's biting us.

Maybe I'm missing something - if two drivers can claim the same device
it's necessary for the distro to choose one and blacklist the other,
correct?  Like ALSA vs. OSS...

Lee