Renaming sound drivers

Doug White dwhite at gumbysoft.com
Tue Jul 13 18:36:12 PDT 2004


On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, Seigo Tanimura wrote:

> I am planning to rename the sound drivers as follows:
>
>
> - `sound'
>
> The generic sound driver, including pcm and midi (to come).
>
> - `snd_*'
>
> The device-dependent drivers, named after the sound driver modules at
> this moment.
>
>
> This scheme eliminates unwanted device-dependent drivers (about 260KB
> in my case) from your kernel.

If you need said drivers, how do you compile them in?  Up until now,
unless you load modules, you don't know which one you grab.

This patch seems somewhat gratuitous.

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