From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934118AbZHEJ7w (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Aug 2009 05:59:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933345AbZHEJ7w (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Aug 2009 05:59:52 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:36603 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933246AbZHEJ7v (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Aug 2009 05:59:51 -0400 Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 11:00:31 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Tejun Heo Cc: Greg KH , Al Viro , Takashi Iwai , Linux Kernel , cguthrie@mandriva.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] sound: make OSS device number claiming optional Message-ID: <20090805110031.51424dbe@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <4A7951B0.10208@suse.de> References: <4A79283E.7030202@kernel.org> <4A79296A.4090600@suse.de> <20090805101551.6ee053e5@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <4A7951B0.10208@suse.de> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.1 (GTK+ 2.14.7; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:32:32 +0900 Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, Alan. > > Alan Cox wrote: > > This looks like a random private devel hack sand > > Why so? > > > I don't see why it's appropriate for mainstream, especially as these > > "new things" don't exist mainstream either. > > The new things is CUSE and it's already in mainstream. Then fix it to use the sound interfaces properly. We have a multiplexor for sound devices so they can be shared between OSS/ALSA/whatever. Use it. Ditto if you want CUSE to handle miscdevices use the miscdevice interface properly.