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From: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@jcu.cz>
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On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Jeremy Crabtree wrote:

> 
> Would itn ot make more sense to allow the user to specify at compile
> time which soundcard(s) s/he needs drivers for? Speaking only for
> myself, I find it to be somewhat wasteful of both time and disk-space
> to have to compile /all/ the drivers, like GUS, AudioPCI, et. al. when
> all I need is the CS4236+ driver. Now, I do understand that the way the
> system works there are several common drivers, but I still think it
> should be possible to modify it to allow compilation of only the
> necessary soundcard specific modules.

Yes, alsa-driver/cards and alsa-driver/lowlevel directory should contain
some conditions in Makefiles, but I don't have time nor needs to do this.

						Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <perex@jcu.cz>
Academic Computer Centre, University of South Bohemia
Branisovska 31, C. Budejovice, CZ-370 05 Czech Republic


