Re: Show stoppers

Stefan Monnier (monnier+lists/linux/kernel/news/@TEQUILA.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU)
12 Oct 1998 10:00:01 -0400


>>>>> "Alex" == Alex Buell <alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk> writes:
> One of the show stoppers is the inability for the soundcore module to
> unload itself from memory when not in use. Just ran into this one just
> now whilst playing sounds.

Does that mean that auto(un)loading of sound modules works in 2.1 ?

It doesn't seem to work with 2.0 and kerneld (apparently) because of a
fundamental problem regarding dependencies: the features requesting `sound' are
provided by `sound.o' which prevents kerneld from being involved when sound.o
is loaded but not cs4232.o (which happens often since kerneld tends to unload
cs4232.o before uart401.o before ad1848.o, ...)

Stefan

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