Re: hdsp driver

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Mon, 03 Mar 2003 11:59:56 -0500,
Paul Davis wrote:
> 
> >> they aren't. that's the whole problem. on my old system (148MB of
> >> RAM), allowing fsck to run would prevent memory allocation. i don't
> >> know of any distribution that inserts modules that early. do you?
> >
> >aha, but fsck runs even before snd-hammerfall-mem, doesn't it? (unless
> >you bulit it in kernel)  otherwise it's dangerous...
> 
> no. absolutely not. i just added something equivalent to this to
> /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit, right before fsck runs.
> 
>    insmod snd-hammerfall-mem
> 
> since snd-hammerfall-mem has nothing to do with filesystems on disk,
> there is no danger.

as long as the snd-hammerfall-mem module itself on the filesystem is 
not broken.  it may happen not rarely if the filesystem crashed just
after (or during) installing the new module files.

> many other hammerfall users are doing equivalent
> things, and its also necessary under windows and macos.

> >now i understood the necessity of the allocation way of
> >snd-hammerfall-mem.  we can merge the feature but it will be likely
> >after 0.9.0, as long as the old style works.  i'd like to concentrate
> >on bug fixes now.
> 
> as long as you propose to leave snd-hammerfall-mem in
> place.
> otherwise, you will make it impossible for many people to use
> their audio interfaces!

don't worry, it's been still there.  no changes regarding snd-hf-mem
without asking you :)


Takashi


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