Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 15:45:15 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Joel Dahl <joel@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r222980 - in head/sys: amd64/conf i386/conf Message-ID: <20110611134515.GA65992@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1106111403060.44950@fledge.watson.org> References: <201106110908.p5B98kkE066709@svn.freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1106111403060.44950@fledge.watson.org>
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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
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