Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 03:09:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> To: Seigo Tanimura <tanimura@tanimura.dyndns.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: The sound drivers has been renamed Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10407160304250.17477-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com> In-Reply-To: <200407160647.i6G6lLxV013662@urban>
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On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Seigo Tanimura wrote: > On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 13:10:58 +0900, > Seigo Tanimura <tanimura@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. What I liked about 'device pcm' was that it would just work regardless of what sound device I had. I didn't need to know that it was Intel ICH3 or whatever.
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