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From: Lennart Poettering <mznyfn@0pointer.de>
Subject: Some drivers don't create all necessary sysfs symlinks
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 22:08:32 +0100
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Hi!

Apparently not all ALSA drivers set the "device" symlink
properly. This creates problems with HAL which then is unable to
manage permissions to those files properly. One example of such a
driver is EMU10K1X.

For more information, see:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=370821#c26

Also reported on the ALSA BTS:

https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=3575

Lennart

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