Sorry for this really late reply, I just wanted to add a note:

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(Would now also be a good time to ask for snd-sc5535audio to be renamed snd-sc5535 for consistence with other driver names?)

I agree with you, I think it should be renamed. I've just ported the SND_KAHLUA driver from OSS (patch not released yet). It covers the cs5530 (VSA1 only). I've named it snd-cs5530.

This audio suffix seems a bit wacky to me. Surely the snd prefix is adequate to distinguish it from an IDE driver, for example :)

Ash

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