Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 18:09:04 -0500 From: Mathew Kanner <mat@cnd.mcgill.ca> To: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re: HEADSUP: Soekris and generic LED/lamp support in FreeBSD-current Message-ID: <20031107230904.GJ94805@cnd.mcgill.ca> In-Reply-To: <20031107154956.D51343@pooker.samsco.home> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1031104210859.71158B-100000@fledge.watson.org> <20031107204812.GD374@arthur.nitro.dk> <20031107210525.GG34063@elvis.mu.org> <20031107152814.Y51343@pooker.samsco.home> <20031107223606.GI94805@cnd.mcgill.ca> <20031107154956.D51343@pooker.samsco.home>
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On Nov 07, Scott Long wrote: > On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Mathew Kanner wrote: > > On Nov 07, Scott Long wrote: > > > On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > > * Simon L. Nielsen <simon@FreeBSD.org> [031107 12:48] wrote: > > > > > On 2003.11.07 08:43:11 -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > > [...snip...] > > > > kldunload should unload all driver. I plan to augment > > /dev/sndstat to show which driver is actually behind the device. > > The current semantics are intentional (IIRC from talking with Cameron). > The idea was to make it easy to load the correct sound driver without > having to know specifically which one you needed, but not waste RAM by > loading all of them. Modifying /dev/sndstat like you said would be > interesting, but changing the unload semantics then makes things less > convenient. kldunload does unload all the drivers, at least on my machine. I can't think of an easy way to implement those semantics without preventing the unload of an attached driver in the general case. --Mat -- Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain. - Pierre Elliott Trudeau
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