On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 11:50:43AM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote: > > Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 09:13:53 +0100 > > From: Alexandre Ratchov <[email protected]> > > > > This diff makes audioctl(1) display the device name (ex. > > "azalia0", "cmpci0", etc) in the "name" attribute. This way > > audioctl(1) output could be correlated with dmesg output. This > > seems more useful than strings like "HD-Audio" or "CMI8338A". > > > > OK? > > There is a small chance that something in ports uses these strings as > keys to store values. This change would introduce a flag day for such > applications, but in the long run using the driver instance name would > help. Except for hotplugging multiple uaudio(4) devices of course... > > Anyway, I think this is ok. > > But you should probably remove the ops->getdev() driver callback if > this sticks.
Sure. I leave this for the next time we make changes in the driver API as they tend to be very time consuming (too many archs to test).
