Sorry guys, I thought you were talking about the snd_ prefix of the module NAMES :) for the option names, dropping seems the right thing to do - an error message should be printed when a snd_* option is used.
Florian Florian Bomers wrote: > > I like it a lot. Due to the prefix I was able to cleanly remove 0.5.x from my > system, and we might want to do that later on with 0.9, too :) > > And since I don't see any benefit in removing the prefix - other than cosmetic - > keeping it will save time for distribution's programmers, sysadmins, writers, > etc. to update their setup routines, configs, howtos, etc. :) > > Florian > > Takashi Iwai wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > so far, all alsa modules use snd_ prefix for each module option. > > iirc, there was a problem regarding namespace at the time of 2.0 > > kernel, and this was some workaround to avoid confliction. > > but 2.2 and later kernels have no such a problem at all. > > > > so, i'd like to ask you how do you think to remove this snd_ prefix. > > of course, there is one and only big problem - compatibility! > > > > the questions are > > > > - whether we should really do it or not? is it worthy? > > > > and > > > > - when? now or after 0.9.0-final release? > > > > opinions, please? > > > > Takashi > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > > Welcome to geek heaven. > > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > > _______________________________________________ > > Alsa-devel mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel > > -- > Florian Bomers > Java Sound > Java Software/Sun Microsystems, Inc. > http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/sound/ > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel -- Florian Bomers Java Sound Java Software/Sun Microsystems, Inc. http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/sound/ ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
