[oss-devel] Large number of files renamed in OSS 4.1

[Clive Wright]

Hannu Savolainen wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> We had to rename all the drivers and many other files to have unique 
> names. For example the sblive driver is now called oss_sblive. In 
> addition many files under kernel/framework have been renamed to have 
> oss_ prefix. The work is still in progress because we have not decided 
> how to name some of the drivers. However the renamed version is now in 
> the hg server. make sure you pull the latest changes if you are making 
> modifications to the drivers.
> 
> This change will have some unwanted side effects. For example the device 
> file (directory) names under /dev/oss/ will change which may cause some 
> compatibility problems. In addition the names of the driver modules will 
> change. For this reason it's necessary to uninstall previous version of 
> OSS before installing the latest version (otherwise the old driver 
> modules will be left in the system). At least it's necessary to run 
> soundoff, ossdetect, soundon and ossdevlinks -r after installing the new 
> version.
> 

I note that following these changes ossdetect does not add vmix (now 
oss_vmix) to /usr/lib/oss/etc/installed_drivers (irrespective of the -V 
option).

The attached patch corrects this for Linux 2.6 builds.
I haven't tested other architectures.

regards,
Clive
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