Re: The new broken world of 2.6, ALSA, and hotplug.
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 10:17:04 +0200
Marco d'Itri <md@Linux.IT> wrote:
> > and loads all the appropriate ALSA drivers... but misses OSS emulation.
> This is the result of traditionally using a stupid init script instead
> of the generic system mechanisms for loading modules.
Best we had at the time. *shrug*
udev and module-init-tools aren't particularily standard nor stable at
the moment, either.
The ... err ... unpleasantness that is /etc/alsa/modutils/* is ... well,
unpleasant. That I'll admit :)
> I welcome the opinion of the ALSA packages maintainers about these
> issues...
We've been talking about redoing all this stuff, but I believe it's a
bit optimistic for Sarge. It might not be, but one of us needs to look
at stuff pretty closely and deal with all cases this late in the game.
Further on, a pleasant solution would be much nicer :)
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