Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Feb 1998 20:23:12 -0500 (EST) | From | James Mastros <> | Subject | Re: sound <-> kerneld |
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On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Marc Lehmann wrote: > nobody else seems to have mentioned it, but there is a conceptual problem > with the modularized sound driver, as well as with some other modules. > > using kerneld for the sound driver (or ftape for example), just doesn't > work: > [...] > This could be fixed when "sound" automatically loads another module > (ftape automatically tries this), but I think there simply is a design > problem, somehow kerneld (or the kernel) should know that 3 modules > really are ONE, otherwise, these modularizing approaches get messy. Or it needs to be told to reload the "sb" module (as in your plan, I assume -- by the audio code, though the rest of these would be by generic code), or the "audio" module (as would happen under devfs), or the "char-device-major-14-minor-4" (as I think probably should happen), instead of "char-device-major-14", as happens now.
-=- James Mastros -- "I'd feel worse if it was the first time. I'd feel better if it was the last." -=- "(from some Niven book, doubtless not original there)" (qtd. by Chris Smith)
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