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 _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
