Re: Testers wanted: exorcised kmod.c: no more daemon!

David Woodhouse (Dave@imladris.demon.co.uk)
Fri, 17 Apr 1998 03:17:50 +0200

chris@cybernet.co.nz said:
> On Fri, Apr 17, 1998 at 12:41:45AM +0200, David Woodhouse wrote:
> >
> > bytor@logicsouth.com said:
> > > Maybe someone should hack the sound module to take initial mixer
> > > settings on startup. (this is why I don't modularize sound =])
> >
> > I did this, and it worked very nicely. It used the [gs]et_persist() functions
> > of kerneld to store and retrieve the mixer levels when unloading and loading
> > the module, respectively.
> >
> > Unfortunately, I'm a bit stuck for ideas now that kerneld's gone.
>
> Can modprobe be hacked to to pre/post stuff for certain modules as flagged
> by /etc/modules.conf or something?

I think it already does. But it's too late - we don't want to set the mixer
levels half a second after deafening the user by setting the output gain to
its default 75%.

We ought to load the intended levels into kernel space before setting the
hardware up, which is what I was doing before kerneld disappeared.

ftp://dwmw2.robinson.cam.ac.uk/pub/kernel/sound-kerneld-79

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