- I'm told that even without a sound card, you can make your computer
- say more than an occasional beep, by programming the PC speaker.
- Kernel patches and supporting utilities to do that are in the pcsp
- package, available at <ftp://ftp.infradead.org/pub/pcsp/>.
+if SOUND
+
+config SOUND_OSS_CORE
+ bool
+ default n
+
+config SOUND_OSS_CORE_PRECLAIM
+ bool "Preclaim OSS device numbers"
+ depends on SOUND_OSS_CORE
+ default y
+ help
+ With this option enabled, the kernel will claim all OSS device
+ numbers if any OSS support (native or emulation) is enabled
+ whether the respective module is loaded or not and try to load the
+ appropriate module using sound-slot/service-* and char-major-*
+ module aliases when one of the device numbers is opened. With
+ this option disabled, kernel will only claim actually in-use
+ device numbers and opening a missing device will generate only the
+ standard char-major-* aliases.
+
+ The only visible difference is use of additional module aliases
+ and whether OSS sound devices appear multiple times in
+ /proc/devices. sound-slot/service-* module aliases are scheduled
+ to be removed (ie. PRECLAIM won't be available) and this option is
+ to make the transition easier. This option can be overridden
+ during boot using the kernel parameter soundcore.preclaim_oss.
+
+ Disabling this allows alternative OSS implementations.
+
+ Please read Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt for
+ details.
+
+ If unsure, say Y.