Re: Device unregistration.
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
Mon, 17 May 1999 12:19:49 -0700
David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> What's the procedure for unregistering devices?
>
> I have converted the PC speaker sound device to use the generic soundcore
> layer, and now it appears as a normal sound card on major 14, so it doesn't
> need the old allocation of major 13.
>
> Could the corresponding entry in devices.t{xt,ex} be either deleted or marked
> as obsolete, please?
>
> I suspect that there's a lot more entries that could benefit from the same
> treatment.
>
Marking it as obsolete is the right thing; after 2.4 comes out it would
be eligible for removal.
-hpa
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