From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 15 13:42:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (dhcp45-24.dis.org [216.240.45.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88B6E37B400 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 13:41:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0FLu9s00932; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 13:56:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200101152156.f0FLu9s00932@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "David W. Chapman Jr." Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OOPS.. (Re: MFC? src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC and sound support) In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 15 Jan 2001 15:18:29 CST." <035101c07f38$b4a6cba0$931576d8@inethouston.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 13:56:08 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Is it even necessary to have pcm in GENERIC since its a kld in -current too? No; putting sound support in GENERIC is entirely unnecessary where the KLD is available. If you want sound, load the KLD either through /boot/ loader.conf, or add a "sound_enable" knob to /etc/rc.conf. > > Well, sound is *already* in GENERIC in -current and has been for > > awhile with no complaints at all from the snapshot users, so the sky > > hasn't fallen yet. There are also certainly a lot of drivers > > currently in GENERIC which would cause me far more concern if I was > > worried about things breaking during the probe. That's not to say > > that we shouldn't do such a "potential impact audit" for GENERIC at > > some point, but I wouldn't start first with the pcm driver if we were > > to do so. > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message