Re: Device unregistration.

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
Date: Sun Aug 13 2000 - 23:23:15 EST


David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> What's the procedure for unregistering devices?
>
> I have converted the PC speaker sound device to use the generic soundcore
> layer, and now it appears as a normal sound card on major 14, so it doesn't
> need the old allocation of major 13.
>
> Could the corresponding entry in devices.t{xt,ex} be either deleted or marked
> as obsolete, please?
>
> I suspect that there's a lot more entries that could benefit from the same
> treatment.
>

That's not how it works. Your changing the driver means we can remove them at some future point, but not until a full major kernel release cycle has passed.

They are already marked as "will be obsolete in 2.6".

        -hpa

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