On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Clemens Ladisch wrote:

> If the sequencer device for a card is requested unsuccessfully (e.g.
> "pmidi -l" when a USB MIDI device isn't yet connected), the device is
> plugged in, and then the device is accessed, ALSA doesn't load the
> sequencer driver.
> 
> The reason for this is that snd_seq_client_use_ptr() assumes that the
> sequencer driver cannot be loaded when the card driver has failed to load
> before.
> 
> This patch removes the "!card_requested" protection from the call to
> snd_seq_device_load_drivers().

It's a bad idea. The better solution is to configure usbmgr to load usb 
driver when hardware is plugged in. We definitely don't want to see 
thousands of failure messages in /var/log/messages.

                                                Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project  http://www.alsa-project.org
SuSE Linux    http://www.suse.com



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