Proposal: stop configuring soundcards through /etc/modprobe.conf

Hans de Goede j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl
Thu Feb 21 18:28:44 UTC 2008


Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 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.
> 

Ah, good, someone might want to inform Martin Stransky (the 
system-config-soundcard maintainer ) about this though, as I discussed this 
with him in bugzilla and he didn't seem to know this.

Thanks & Regards,

Hans




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