linux-stable/sound/Kconfig
Tejun Heo 93fe4483e6 sound: make OSS device number claiming optional and schedule its removal
If any OSS support is enabled, regardless of built-in or module,
sound_core claims full OSS major number (that is, the old 0-255
region) to trap open attempts and request sound modules using custom
module aliases.  This feature is redundant as chrdev already has such
mechanism.  This preemptive claiming prevents alternative OSS
implementation.

The custom module aliases are scheduled to be removed and the previous
patch made soundcore emit the standard chrdev aliases too to help
transition.

This patch schedule the feature for removal in a year and makes it
optional so that developers and distros can try new things in the
meantime without rebuilding the kernel.  The pre-claiming can be
turned off by using SOUND_OSS_CORE_PRECLAIM and/or kernel parameter
soundcore.preclaim_oss.

As this allows sound minors to be individually grabbed by other users,
this patch updates sound_insert_unit() such that if registering
individual device region fails, it tries the next available slot.

For details on removal plan, please read the entry added by this patch
in feature-removal-schedule.txt .

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2009-08-10 13:59:36 +02:00

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# sound/Config.in
#
menuconfig SOUND
tristate "Sound card support"
depends on HAS_IOMEM
help
If you have a sound card in your computer, i.e. if it can say more
than an occasional beep, say Y. Be sure to have all the information
about your sound card and its configuration down (I/O port,
interrupt and DMA channel), because you will be asked for it.
You want to read the Sound-HOWTO, available from
<http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. General information about
the modular sound system is contained in the files
<file:Documentation/sound/oss/Introduction>. The file
<file:Documentation/sound/oss/README.OSS> contains some slightly
outdated but still useful information as well. Newer sound
driver documentation is found in <file:Documentation/sound/alsa/*>.
If you have a PnP sound card and you want to configure it at boot
time using the ISA PnP tools (read
<http://www.roestock.demon.co.uk/isapnptools/>), then you need to
compile the sound card support as a module and load that module
after the PnP configuration is finished. To do this, choose M here
and read <file:Documentation/sound/oss/README.modules>; the module
will be called soundcore.
if SOUND
config SOUND_OSS_CORE
bool
default n
config SOUND_OSS_CORE_PRECLAIM
bool "Preclaim OSS device numbers"
depends on SOUND_OSS_CORE
default y
help
With this option enabled, the kernel will claim all OSS device
numbers if any OSS support (native or emulation) is enabled
whether the respective module is loaded or not and try to load the
appropriate module using sound-slot/service-* and char-major-*
module aliases when one of the device numbers is opened. With
this option disabled, kernel will only claim actually in-use
device numbers and opening a missing device will generate only the
standard char-major-* aliases.
The only visible difference is use of additional module aliases
and whether OSS sound devices appear multiple times in
/proc/devices. sound-slot/service-* module aliases are scheduled
to be removed (ie. PRECLAIM won't be available) and this option is
to make the transition easier. This option can be overridden
during boot using the kernel parameter soundcore.preclaim_oss.
Disabling this allows alternative OSS implementations.
Please read Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt for
details.
If unusre, say Y.
source "sound/oss/dmasound/Kconfig"
if !M68K
menuconfig SND
tristate "Advanced Linux Sound Architecture"
help
Say 'Y' or 'M' to enable ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture),
the new base sound system.
For more information, see <http://www.alsa-project.org/>
if SND
source "sound/core/Kconfig"
source "sound/drivers/Kconfig"
source "sound/isa/Kconfig"
source "sound/pci/Kconfig"
source "sound/ppc/Kconfig"
source "sound/aoa/Kconfig"
source "sound/arm/Kconfig"
source "sound/atmel/Kconfig"
source "sound/spi/Kconfig"
source "sound/mips/Kconfig"
source "sound/sh/Kconfig"
# the following will depend on the order of config.
# here assuming USB is defined before ALSA
source "sound/usb/Kconfig"
# the following will depend on the order of config.
# here assuming PCMCIA is defined before ALSA
source "sound/pcmcia/Kconfig"
source "sound/sparc/Kconfig"
source "sound/parisc/Kconfig"
source "sound/soc/Kconfig"
endif # SND
menuconfig SOUND_PRIME
tristate "Open Sound System (DEPRECATED)"
select SOUND_OSS_CORE
help
Say 'Y' or 'M' to enable Open Sound System drivers.
if SOUND_PRIME
source "sound/oss/Kconfig"
endif # SOUND_PRIME
endif # !M68K
endif # SOUND
# AC97_BUS is used from both sound and ucb1400
config AC97_BUS
tristate
help
This is used to avoid config and link hard dependencies between the
sound subsystem and other function drivers completely unrelated to
sound although they're sharing the AC97 bus. Concerned drivers
should "select" this.