Re: [Bug #10679] 2.6.26-rc1 regression:e5e1d3cb20034a3cbcfff1f0bae12201aa2ce17e breaks artsd

[Dave Jones]

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@xxxxxxxxxx>
- 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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