HEADS UP: The sound drivers has been renamed

[Seigo Tanimura]

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 03:09:15 -0400 (EDT),
  Daniel Eischen <eischen at vigrid.com> said:

eischen> On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Seigo Tanimura wrote:
>> On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 13:10:58 +0900,
>> Seigo Tanimura <tanimura at tanimura.dyndns.org> said:
>> 
tanimura> I am planning to rename the sound drivers as follows:
tanimura> - `sound'
>> 
tanimura> The generic sound driver, including pcm and midi (to come).
>> 
tanimura> - `snd_*'
>> 
tanimura> The device-dependent drivers, named after the sound driver modules at
tanimura> this moment.
>> 
>> 
tanimura> This scheme eliminates unwanted device-dependent drivers (about 260KB
tanimura> in my case) from your kernel.
>> 
tanimura> In addition, the module `snd_pcm' will be renamed to `sound', in order
tanimura> to sync with the new naming convention.

eischen> What I liked about 'device pcm' was that it would just work regardless of
eischen> what sound device I had.  I didn't need to know that it was Intel ICH3
eischen> or whatever.

In that case, copy the configuration of the sound drivers from NOTES
to your kernel configuration.


Would it be better if I added them to GENERIC, just like USB?

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Seigo Tanimura <tanimura at tanimura.dyndns.org> <tanimura at FreeBSD.org>