On Sunday 06 July 2008 01:06:06 François Revol wrote:
> > > - Getting USB hotplugin working correctly under Linux (w/o
> > > ossdetect -d)
> > > would be apperciated by users.
> > >
> > Unfortunately the devfs feature was removed from Linux. The way how
> > device naming works in OSS (/dev/oss/<driver>/*) can only work
> > properly
> > on top of devfs. Under Linux the ossdetect -d command needs to be run
> > after a new device is added. It reads /proc/opensound/devfiles and
> > (re)creates all the device files listed in it. In addition the
> > ossdevlinks command needs to be run so that the old style /dev/dsp#
> > links get created.
> >
> > Maybe somebody could hack the hotplug system of Linux so that it runs
> > "ossdetect -d;ossdevlinks" autmatically after a new USB sound card is
> > added.
> >
>
> udev should be able to do that I think, don't know much about it except
> that I had to hack an hard-to-find-even-for-me file to get something to
> work in ubuntu.
IIRC, udev depends on the "real" node being exposed via sysfs, and OSS doesn't
do that (yet?). I sent earlier a "solution" (i.e. run ossdetect -d whenever
oss_usb is attached to a device hack) on the hal level.
Yours,
Yair K.
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