Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S937077AbXHGWYf (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Aug 2007 18:24:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932492AbXHGWXq (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Aug 2007 18:23:46 -0400 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.181]:57856 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934547AbXHGWXn (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Aug 2007 18:23:43 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=c16zg4ZdGa/19pDqR+r3n9M5TrTxAsgp0G/H5khK4/wLQ7+R5zJM8s0lYXJ0FeVX6hIKLtLw+YXFTVqS3juWtsYX7HPHTV+mMe6YPAX6MC9gs9BkfmEK7TiRo+cJWz0gs/+OkchJAc39juJffBGazTNBpU8k2fSxsjNKIz7WGlw= Message-ID: <3ae72650708071523s24d80ae4v2590c50aea04c850@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 00:23:42 +0200 From: "Kay Sievers" To: "Chuck Ebbert" Subject: Re: 2.6.22: pcspkr driver no longer loads automatically Cc: "Jeff Garzik" , linux-kernel , "Dmitry Torokhov" In-Reply-To: <46B8E773.5020406@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <46B8C8FA.9020100@redhat.com> <46B8D984.7040602@garzik.org> <46B8E773.5020406@redhat.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: b5294a09edbf2969 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1171 Lines: 28 On 8/7/07, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > On 08/07/2007 04:43 PM, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Chuck Ebbert wrote: > >> With no other changes but a kernel upgrade, the pcspkr driver > >> doesn't load automatically anymore. No changes to that driver > >> jump out, so where else could the problem be? Something to > >> do with the device class changes maybe? > > > > This has long been a problem for me on Fedora, long before 2.6.22. I > > would never ever have the glorious system beeps, unless I built the > > module into my kernel. > > > > I would look into distro areas and see why it's not getting loaded. > > > > Seems to be some kind of udev / hal magic loading it. With 2.6.20/21 > it worked for most people, now it seems totally broken. Maybe we should > just load it unconditionally. It doesn't have any aliases, so seems it was never autoloaded. It's like mousedev, and should probably just be built-in. Kay - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/