Re: Multiple sounds

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 21.08.2006, at 15:14, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > Well, I investigated doing this at some point, but it seemed quite
> > impossible at this time.  We'd have to change the device handling, so
> > that a driver can hand out private devices for an open and not have
> > just one device per major/minor.
> Actually, no. It just should threat minor==0 or whatever special and
> replace the in-kernel file with an entry for the first free minor. That
> is possible already, through the mechanism for cloning in the tree
> sucks.

could you show me a short snippet how this could be done?  i know the 
driver can find a free vchan, that's no problem, but it also needs to 
return a different device than the one which was actually opened.  this 
was where i got stuck.

cheers
  simon

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