[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ALSA: doc: fix snd_hda_intel driver name

[Takashi Iwai]

On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 12:43:52 +0100,
Radoslaw Smigielski wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 11:58:04AM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 11:36:37 +0100,
> > Radoslaw Smigielski wrote:
> > > 
> > > Update driver name snd-hda-intel to proper, existing driver
> > > name snd_hda_intel in Documentation/sound/hd-audio/notes.rst.
> > 
> > snd-hda-intel is correct from the module file name POV.
> > Both are handled equivalently.
> > 
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > Takashi
> > 
> 
> Takashi-san, I agree that the names with hyphens (snd-hda-intel)
> are present in help sections of many options in sound/pci/hda/Kconfig.
> But snd-hda-intel is confusing from end user point of view.
> After reading notes.rst, end user is going to do someting like this:
> 
>     lsmod | grep snd-hda-intel
> 
> and this command gives false result.
> 
> Also this modprobe.conf file is not going to work

It must work.  If not, it's a bug of modprobe :)


Takashi


> but it's an existing
> example in Documentation/sound/hd-audio/notes.rst:
> 
> > > -    options snd-hda-intel patch=on-board-patch,hdmi-patch
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Radek
>