Re: HEADS UP: The sound drivers has been renamed

From: Daniel Eischen <eischen_at_vigrid.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 03:09:15 -0400 (EDT)
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Seigo Tanimura wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 13:10:58 +0900,
>   Seigo Tanimura <tanimura_at_tanimura.dyndns.org> said:
> 
> tanimura> I am planning to rename the sound drivers as follows:
> tanimura> - `sound'
> 
> tanimura> The generic sound driver, including pcm and midi (to come).
> 
> tanimura> - `snd_*'
> 
> tanimura> The device-dependent drivers, named after the sound driver modules at
> tanimura> this moment.
> 
> 
> tanimura> This scheme eliminates unwanted device-dependent drivers (about 260KB
> tanimura> in my case) from your kernel.
> 
> tanimura> In addition, the module `snd_pcm' will be renamed to `sound', in order
> tanimura> to sync with the new naming convention.

What I liked about 'device pcm' was that it would just work regardless of
what sound device I had.  I didn't need to know that it was Intel ICH3
or whatever.
Received on Fri Jul 16 2004 - 05:09:16 UTC

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