Re: Persistent module storage [was Linux 2.4 Status / TODO page]

David Woodhouse
2000-11-06T11:48:35Z

jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com said:
> > * User continues to happily listen to radio through sound card
> You're using the sound card without a driver?

Yes. The sound card allows itself to be unloaded when the pass-through mixer
levels are non-zero. This is reasonable iff it can be reloaded without
destroying those levels again.

jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com said:
> If you create a post-action in /etc/modules.conf which initializes
> the mixer to proper levels, this problem does not exist.

Yes it does. It can be a few seconds between initialisation and the
post-action running. That's plenty of time to miss what the news announcer
was saying about whether you need to go to work today (my gf is a teacher)
or to wake the entire house if the mixer levels don't default to zero.

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