At Wed, 7 Mar 2007 21:38:06 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Wed, 07 Mar 2007, Tobin Davis wrote: > > Another question comes to mind. Why would the volume need to be > > controlled if there is no sound driver to generate sound? I'm trying > > to understand the usage model here for that aspect. > > Because the firmware will happly beep away, and you may want to control the > volume of those beeps. And it also controls the volume of the PC buzzer > (the BIOS makes sure whatever sound hardware is in the machine lets that one > through by default). OTOH, from the usability POV, it's really annoying to have two individual "devices" for the very same output. That's why I'm in favor of either built-in-sound-driver or add-on style. And, if you'll ALSA API for controlling volumes, it assumes that any sound system is running. So, it appears logical to me that the beep-control driver also belongs to a sound driver. Anyway, if you'd like a stand-alone implementation, we can introduce a Kconfig, too. But, note that one merit to use the add-on style (referring to the exported symbol of snd-intel8x0 driver) is that this dependency will resolve the module loading order, too. 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 _______________________________________________ ibm-acpi-devel mailing list ibm-acpi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ibm-acpi-devel
