On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 12:28:24PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
Mark Brown wrote:
It was because they aren't automatically probeable without loading the driver and taking a look at the hardware - if a distro wants to use them it ends up having to load and unload the module.
So he was grumbling about ISA sound card hardware design? Then I understand and agree well. Though, the fact that it isn't discoverable is same on many old embedded device drivers. The difference is whether it's used only in a custom kernel or in a generic kernel by distros.
Any embedded devices doing that are just broken - for embedded things you do always have an enumeration of the devices even if it happens to come from a data table in software. For ISA there's no option.