Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 17 May 2008 16:47:25 -0400 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: [Bug #10679] 2.6.26-rc1 regression: e5e1d3cb20034a3cbcfff1f0bae12201aa2ce17e breaks artsd |
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On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 06:36:29PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Thu, 15 May 2008 09:06:54 -0400, > Theodore Tso wrote: > > > > On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 07:41:06AM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > > Sounds reasonable. To where should it be added, BTW? > > > Little people seem to care about Kconfig help texts, and an extra > > > comment block (with depends on SND_PCSP) could be annoying... > > > > That's a good question. A note that including including this module > > could potentially cause sound cards to be renumbered might be > > reasonable, since I suspect most users (and most application > > programs!) have been accustomed to only having one sound card, and so > > building this module may cause sound cards to be renumbered in Kconfig > > would at least be a start. > > Yes. > > > I know this wouldn't help users of distro kernels, but this would at > > least be one way of warning distro maintainers to think twice about > > enabling it as a module.
That arrived in my inbox slightly to late :)
> Well, yeah, for distro kernels, it's then a problem of distributors :)
From todays Fedora kernel changelog :-
* Sat May 17 2008 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> - Disable CONFIG_SND_PCSP (#447039)
Problem solved :-)
More seriously, it doesn't seem that there's any way we can build this driver modular without it screwing up already working systems unless we cripple its MODULE_ALIAS to not autoload, allowing users who care about it (which will be in the minority anyway) to add it manually.
Dave
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