svn commit: r222980 - in head/sys: amd64/conf i386/conf

[Luigi Rizzo]

On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 02:07:17PM +0100, Robert Watson wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 11 Jun 2011, Joel Dahl wrote:
> 
> >Log:
> > Enable sound support by default on i386 and amd64.
...
> To me, this seems like the wrong direction.  Over the last decade, we've 
> been trying to move away from conditional compilation of features to having 
> them be loadable as modules.  The arrival of freebsd-update has only 

i agree, we should move towards modules and not just to reduce the kernel
footprint but because it is a lot easier to update individual drivers
than to update the whole kernel.
In my experience, whenever i buy new motherboards it is often the
case that network cards, audio cards and several usb things
are not recognised just because a change in the device id.
Having the driver embedded in the kernel is very annoying in these cases.

cheers
luigi