Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 03:58:37 +1000 (EST) From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>, multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: drop snd_ from DRIVER_MODULEs... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1060420025705.7196A-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au> In-Reply-To: <20060419155819.GK38619@funkthat.com>
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On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> So, the file name is the same, the only real user difference from this
> change is that the cat /dev/sndstat says via82c686 instead of
> snd_via82c686... This is from the PCM_KLDSTRING part of the patch, and
> I only changed it to match the kernel module name, so I don't have a
> preference as to if it changes or not...
>
> also, w/o this change I couldn't of loaded the module the way I did
> above, w/o the snd_ prefix... It appears that kldunload doesn't
> reference the kldxref file as you can't unload by module name.. :(
Ok, thanks for the detail.
> I haven't completely thought about making pcm it's own device node..
> but there was recently this whole discussion about ethX naming, and
> I thought it a bit funny that for ethernet we believe that it's good
> to keep the names diverse, yet w/ sound we don't.. maybe this is
> because it's rare for a person to have multiple sound cards, but w/
> uaudio, things are changing...
Indeed. I'm still baffled by the bridge driver thing (eg sbc/ess) and
wonder why sbc can't figure that out, and then why devices are pcm* ..
> We can always leave it be, and have special hacks hanging around... I
> just noticed some interesting inconsistancies and thought I'd bring
> things together...
Well, don't count my misunderstanding as a vote :)
> > Is it also proposed to remove eg acpi_ from the ACPI subsystem modules?
>
> No, since they are named acpi_*...
> static driver_t acpi_video_driver = {
> "acpi_video",
> [...]
> DRIVER_MODULE(acpi_video, vgapci, acpi_video_driver, acpi_video_devclass,
Thanks. I'll try asking a sensible question instead, after checking
archives and patches 5.4 to -stable re my half-broken /dev/speaker ..
Cheers, Ian
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