On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 19:40 -0500, Paul Davis wrote: > On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 19:33 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 01:24 +0100, David Causse wrote: > > > 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? > IIRC this currently does not work unless you use module params to set a unique ID. I don't have hw to test it. I believe udev can also do this for you. Not sure how well distros implement it - last time I checked not well. What happens on other OSes with multiple identical devices? Lee