From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Takashi Iwai Subject: Re: hdsp driver Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 18:08:30 +0100 Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: References: <20030303165638.2893E14801@Cantor.suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.4 - "Hosorogi") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20030303165638.2893E14801@Cantor.suse.de> Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: Paul Davis Cc: alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf