At Mon, 02 Oct 2006 20:30:44 +0200, matthias.goerner@xxxxxxx wrote: > > What are "snd_card_set_dev" and "snd_card_set_generic_dev" good for? > I read the Writing ALSA drivers by Takashi Iwai but didn't > understand the chapter on it. How can snd_card_set_dev be useful if > it is ones passed a struct for PCI and then for ISA? The driver core requires the struct device pointer for sysfs. This is referred by HAL later and almost mandatory. The snd_card_set_dev() macro is introduced just for the backward compatibility with 2.2/2.4 kernels. In the 2.6 kernels, it just do card->dev = &pci_dev->dev; snd_card_set_generic_dev() is obsolete and no longer used. Takashi ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
