From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 15 13:44: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from leviathan.inethouston.net (216-118-21-146.pdq.net [216.118.21.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E047937B401; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 13:43:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from dwcjr (DWCJR.inethouston.net [216.118.21.147]) by leviathan.inethouston.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AE55177E9F; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 15:43:29 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <038e01c07f3c$3480de80$931576d8@inethouston.net> From: "David W. Chapman Jr." To: "Mike Smith" Cc: References: <200101152156.f0FLu9s00932@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Subject: Re: OOPS.. (Re: MFC? src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC and sound support) Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 15:43:32 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG That is exactly what I was thinking, just making sure there wasn't anything I was missing. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Smith" To: "David W. Chapman Jr." Cc: Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 3:56 PM Subject: Re: OOPS.. (Re: MFC? src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC and sound support) > > 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