On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 19:33 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 01:24 +0100, David Causse wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 11:39:50PM +0100, Atte André Jensen wrote: > > > Paul Davis wrote: > > > > > > >Maybe users should use names, but apps shouldn't be doing this. They > > > >would become totally non-portable. > > > > > > Well, I just rolled 2.6.18-rt7 (was on 2.6.15) and the device numbers > > > are completely reshuffled. I would imagine any setup that relies on the > > > device numbers (and not names) would be totally messed up in situations > > > such as these. > > > > IMHO card number should be static and setup by system conf (index=xx > > module option), that sounds much cleaner to me. > > How could this possibly be cleaner or simpler than addressing devices by > name like every other OS does? what happens in ALSA when you install two devices of the same type?
