Re: sound <-> kerneld
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 5 Feb 1998 10:29:34 +0000 (GMT)
> 1. access the sound driver.. in my case "sb" is loaded, which depends
> on sound, which is loaded and registers the device.
> 2. one minute after this '(if not using the device), kerneld tries
> to unload modules automatically, i.e. sb in this case, since
> it's unused (sound itself, though, is used)
> 3. now everybody (non-root) has to wait for another minute until
> sound itself get's unloaded, no sound operation is possible.
Thats interesting. Thats really a kerneld flaw. It should be figuring
it out it partially unloaded a module set and restore the rest. Equally
it can't do that as it wont see the next request.
> This could be fixed when "sound" automatically loads another module
Send me a diff ;)