From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 14 02:30:35 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C620816A4CE for ; Wed, 14 Jul 2004 02:30:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sohgo.tanimura.dyndns.org (IP1A0591.kng.mesh.ad.jp [211.13.103.211]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C5A243D39 for ; Wed, 14 Jul 2004 02:30:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tanimura@tanimura.dyndns.org) Received: from sohgo.tanimura.dyndns.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) ESMTP id i6E2URDH052822 ; Wed, 14 Jul 2004 11:30:27 +0900 (JST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) (8.12.11/3.7W-submit-carrots-Tokyu-Meguro) with UUCP id i6E2UPdb052821 ; Wed, 14 Jul 2004 11:30:25 +0900 (JST) Received: from urban.tanimura.dyndns.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) with ESMTP id i6E2TVib004186 ; Wed, 14 Jul 2004 11:29:31 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <200407140229.i6E2TVib004186@urban> Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 11:29:31 +0900 From: Seigo Tanimura To: Doug White In-Reply-To: <20040713183517.V527@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <200407120311.i6C3AdDL026660@shojaku.t.axe-inc.co.jp> <20040713183517.V527@carver.gumbysoft.com> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.10.1 (Watching The Wheels) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.6 (Marutamachi) APEL/10.6 MULE XEmacs/21.4 (patch 14) (Reasonable Discussion) (i386--freebsd) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII cc: Seigo Tanimura cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Renaming sound drivers X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 02:30:35 -0000 On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 18:36:12 -0700 (PDT), Doug White said: dwhite> On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, Seigo Tanimura wrote: >> I am planning to rename the sound drivers as follows: >> >> >> - `sound' >> >> The generic sound driver, including pcm and midi (to come). >> >> - `snd_*' >> >> The device-dependent drivers, named after the sound driver modules at >> this moment. >> >> >> This scheme eliminates unwanted device-dependent drivers (about 260KB >> in my case) from your kernel. dwhite> If you need said drivers, how do you compile them in? Up until now, dwhite> unless you load modules, you don't know which one you grab. The patch adds all of the sound drivers into NOTES, so all you need is to copy them into your kernel configuration. Alternatively, it may be better to add the sound drivers into GENERIC, as the USB drivers do. dwhite> This patch seems somewhat gratuitous. -- Seigo Tanimura