> On Apr 29, 2022, at 09:33, Angelo <ang...@seeinthedark.net> wrote: > > Hello > >> On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 06:34:00AM -0500, Scott Cheloha wrote: >> speaker(4) is a whimsical thing, but I don't think we should have a >> dedicated chiptune interpreter in the kernel. >> >> This patch unhooks the driver and the manpage from the build. The >> driver is built for alpha, amd64, and i386. > > If this patch is applied, I can probably no longer do something like > this? > > $ echo -n 'L30cbdcbdcbdP2cbdcbdcbd' > /dev/speaker > > If that's the case, then it would be good if we can keep speaker(4). > I have multiple headless systems at home which start to beep under > certain conditions, to alert me.
This is a perfectly valid use case. Crude, but absent a real audio device you're just using what you've got. If the systems in question have *no* other audio output then I am less inclined to remove it.
