linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.22: pcspkr driver no longer loads automatically

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Message-ID: <3ae72650708071523s24d80ae4v2590c50aea04c850@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 8 Aug 2007 00:23:42 +0200
From:	"Kay Sievers" <kay.sievers@...y.org>
To:	"Chuck Ebbert" <cebbert@...hat.com>
Cc:	"Jeff Garzik" <jeff@...zik.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Dmitry Torokhov" <dtor@...ightbb.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.22: pcspkr driver no longer loads automatically

On 8/7/07, Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com> 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
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