Re: [patch 1/1] pc-speaker: add SND_SILENT

[Bodo Eggert <harvested.in.lkml@7eggert.dyndns.org>]

Stas Sergeev <stsp@aknet.ru> wrote:

> [ adding LKML to CC and removing akpm as this went into a
> discussion phase apparently ]
> 
> Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

>>> Well, the main reason behind that change, is that there is a PC-Speaker
>>> PCM driver/emulator, snd-pcsp, pending in an ALSA CVS. I can't get it
>>> included in kernel before there is a way to disable the pcspkr driver.
>> Why can't you? We have ALSA and OSS together in the kernel just fine.
> But the pcspkr driver is not an OSS, it is an "input" driver.
> 
>> If you are concerned about both modules baing active at the same time
>> do not let user compile pcspkr if snd_pcsp is selected for now.
> The problem is that the snd-pcsp doesn't replace pcspkr.

If that's the problem, create a minimal input driver that will signal the
snd-pcsp to beep, and change the original pcspkr to include "(Non-ALSA)".
Obviously both drivers will exclude each other, but that should be fine,
and users who prefer "music" over beeps will be fine, too.

And as a bonus, you might upload a custom PC beep ... but if you do, a
userspace notifyer combined with a beep-daemon might be preferable
(uinput? I know it exists ...).

Off cause I might be suggesting exactly what you did, since I didn't see
the patch.
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