Compiling in sound driver in kernel

[Jonathan McKeown]

On Friday 12 June 2009 12:54:19 Polytropon wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:45:59 +0200, Bernt Hansson <bernt at bah.homeip.net> 
wrote:
> > Mel Flynn said the following on 2009-06-12 01:23:
> > >> FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #0: Thu Jun 11 21:56:24 CEST 2009
> > >>     root at fqdn:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
> > >
> > >                                      ^^^^^^^
> > > Did you edit GENERIC
> >
> > Yes. Added sound and snd_hda
>
> Polite note: This is NOT the way to create a custom kernel. The
> handbook mentions that it's advised to create a copy of GENERIC
> and work with that.

Just to emphasise this point: look at the other kernel configs supplied with 
source. They tend to include GENERIC, and then have a small list of changed 
options. Messing about with GENERIC is not a good idea.

Jonathan