HEADSUP: Soekris and generic LED/lamp support in FreeBSD-current

[Mathew Kanner]

On Nov 07, Scott Long wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Mathew Kanner wrote:
> > On Nov 07, Scott Long wrote:
> > > On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > > > * Simon L. Nielsen <simon at FreeBSD.org> [031107 12:48] wrote:
> > > > > On 2003.11.07 08:43:11 -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> > [...snip...]
> >
> > 	kldunload should unload all driver.  I plan to augment
> > /dev/sndstat to show which driver is actually behind the device.
> 
> The current semantics are intentional (IIRC from talking with Cameron).
> The idea was to make it easy to load the correct sound driver without
> having to know specifically which one you needed, but not waste RAM by
> loading all of them.  Modifying /dev/sndstat like you said would be
> interesting, but changing the unload semantics then makes things less
> convenient.

	kldunload does unload all the drivers, at least on my machine.
I can't think of an easy way to implement those semantics without
preventing the unload of an attached driver in the general case.

	--Mat

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