git: 8278fd982926 - stable/14 - RELNOTES: Add 960ee8094913 note

From: Christos Margiolis <christos_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2025 15:47:12 UTC
The branch stable/14 has been updated by christos:

URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=8278fd982926c3c9962ec3430723118fb99cc767

commit 8278fd982926c3c9962ec3430723118fb99cc767
Author:     Christos Margiolis <christos@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2025-03-04 15:26:25 +0000
Commit:     Christos Margiolis <christos@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2025-03-04 15:46:29 +0000

    RELNOTES: Add 960ee8094913 note
    
    Sponsored by:   The FreeBSD Foundation
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 RELNOTES | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/RELNOTES b/RELNOTES
index 812dc613957b..97abbfcafafb 100644
--- a/RELNOTES
+++ b/RELNOTES
@@ -10,6 +10,16 @@ newline.  Entries should be separated by a newline.
 
 Changes to this file should not be MFCed.
 
+960ee8094913:
+	hw.snd.maxautovchans has been retired. The commit introduced a
+	hw.snd.vchans_enable sysctl, which along with
+	dev.pcm.X.{play|rec}.vchans, from now on work as tunables to only
+	enable/disable vchans, as opposed to setting their number and/or
+	(de-)allocating vchans. Since these sysctls do not trigger any
+	(de-)allocations anymore, their effect is instantaneous, whereas before
+	we could have frozen the machine (when trying to allocate new vchans)
+	when setting dev.pcm.X.{play|rec}.vchans to a very large value.
+
 ead3cd3ef628:
 	Add a new -a command line option to mountd(8).
 	If this command line option is specified, when