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Date:      Tue, 25 Feb 2025 11:58:59 GMT
From:      Christos Margiolis <christos@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-all@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-main@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   git: 3b60c193fc8e - main - RELNOTES: Add 02d4eeabfd73 note
Message-ID:  <202502251158.51PBwxbO069938@gitrepo.freebsd.org>

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The branch main has been updated by christos:

URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=3b60c193fc8e0d4fdc6cf8683afbb7c9b3b5f6ca

commit 3b60c193fc8e0d4fdc6cf8683afbb7c9b3b5f6ca
Author:     Christos Margiolis <christos@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2025-02-25 11:58:25 +0000
Commit:     Christos Margiolis <christos@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2025-02-25 11:58:25 +0000

    RELNOTES: Add 02d4eeabfd73 note
    
    Sponsored by:   The FreeBSD Foundation
---
 RELNOTES | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/RELNOTES b/RELNOTES
index 96e2d24bf833..7b5eac0d8730 100644
--- a/RELNOTES
+++ b/RELNOTES
@@ -10,6 +10,16 @@ newline.  Entries should be separated by a newline.
 
 Changes to this file should not be MFCed.
 
+02d4eeabfd73:
+	hw.snd.maxautovchans has been retired. The commit introduced a
+	hw.snd.vchans_enable sysctl, which along with
+	dev.pcm.X.{play|rec}.vchans, from now on work as tunables to only
+	enable/disable vchans, as opposed to setting their number and/or
+	(de-)allocating vchans. Since these sysctls do not trigger any
+	(de-)allocations anymore, their effect is instantaneous, whereas before
+	we could have frozen the machine (when trying to allocate new vchans)
+	when setting dev.pcm.X.{play|rec}.vchans to a very large value.
+
 7e7f88001d7d:
 	The definition of pf's struct pfr_tstats and struct pfr_astats has
 	changed, breaking ABI compatibility for 32-bit powerpc (including



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