On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 02:07:17PM +0100, Robert Watson wrote: > > On Sat, 11 Jun 2011, Joel Dahl wrote: > > >Log: > > Enable sound support by default on i386 and amd64. ... > To me, this seems like the wrong direction. Over the last decade, we've > been trying to move away from conditional compilation of features to having > them be loadable as modules. The arrival of freebsd-update has only
i agree, we should move towards modules and not just to reduce the kernel footprint but because it is a lot easier to update individual drivers than to update the whole kernel. In my experience, whenever i buy new motherboards it is often the case that network cards, audio cards and several usb things are not recognised just because a change in the device id. Having the driver embedded in the kernel is very annoying in these cases. cheers luigi _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
