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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.10-rc2] oss: AC97 quirk facility
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"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com> wrote:
>
> Add a quirk facility for AC97 in OSS, and add a quirk list for the
> i810_audio driver.
> 
> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
> ---
> This allows automatically "correct" behaviour for sound hardware w/
> known oddities.  For example, many cards have the headphone and
> line-out outputs swapped or headphone outputs only.
> 
> The code is stolen shamelessly from ALSA, FWIW...

Dumb question: why not just use the ALSA driver?