Proposal: stop configuring soundcards through /etc/modprobe.conf
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Thu Feb 21 17:00:05 UTC 2008
Hans de Goede (j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl) said:
> So our current scheme has a number of problems, which can be workaround,
> but that would require some serious surgery to system-config-soundcard, and
> I wonder if this is the right solution. Esp since we have been slowly
> moving away from using /etc/modprobe.conf at all, to a system where udev
> loads all drivers (and udev also already loads the soundrivers).
>
> We've matched this no longer using /etc/modprobe.conf for driver loading
> and there by loosing the ability to determine "device numbers" (eth0 /
> eth1, sdf / sdg) with smarter userspace support to determine which device
> is what: determine which ethernet card is which by hardware address, hal
> for removale media. I would like to propose to do the same for sound.
>
> Given that pulseaudio is integrated with hal and that we are
> moving to pulseaudio, I think that the solution is to stop trying to hard
> assign indexes to soundcards, or to add module aliases for them to
> /etc/modprobe.conf. Just let udev load the modules (as it already does).
Right, this is already done in rawhide - there is nothing that automatically
touches soundcards.
Bill
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