1. 10 Aug, 2009 3 commits
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      sound: make OSS device number claiming optional and schedule its removal · 93fe4483
      Tejun Heo authored
      If any OSS support is enabled, regardless of built-in or module,
      sound_core claims full OSS major number (that is, the old 0-255
      region) to trap open attempts and request sound modules using custom
      module aliases.  This feature is redundant as chrdev already has such
      mechanism.  This preemptive claiming prevents alternative OSS
      implementation.
      
      The custom module aliases are scheduled to be removed and the previous
      patch made soundcore emit the standard chrdev aliases too to help
      transition.
      
      This patch schedule the feature for removal in a year and makes it
      optional so that developers and distros can try new things in the
      meantime without rebuilding the kernel.  The pre-claiming can be
      turned off by using SOUND_OSS_CORE_PRECLAIM and/or kernel parameter
      soundcore.preclaim_oss.
      
      As this allows sound minors to be individually grabbed by other users,
      this patch updates sound_insert_unit() such that if registering
      individual device region fails, it tries the next available slot.
      
      For details on removal plan, please read the entry added by this patch
      in feature-removal-schedule.txt .
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
      93fe4483
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      sound: request char-major-* module aliases for missing OSS devices · 0a848680
      Tejun Heo authored
      Till now missing OSS devices emitted sound-slot/service-* module
      alises instead of the standard char-major-* if a missing device number
      is opened if soundcore is loaded.  The custom module aliases don't
      have any inherent benefit than backward compatibility.
      
      sound-slot/service-* module aliases is scheduled to be removed and to
      help the transition this patch makes soundcore emit the standard
      module alises along with the custom ones.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
      0a848680
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      chrdev: implement __[un]register_chrdev() · 1905b1bf
      Tejun Heo authored
      [un]register_chrdev() assume minor range 0-255.  This patch adds __
      prefixed versions which take @minorbase and @count explicitly.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
      1905b1bf
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