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

Chris Wedgwood (chris@cybernet.co.nz)
Fri, 17 Apr 1998 14:21:49 +1200


On Fri, Apr 17, 1998 at 03:17:50AM +0200, David Woodhouse wrote:

> > 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

I did say PRE/post stuff.

I can't see why modprobe can't load a small blob into memory somewhere than
the module can use when it inits.

Am I missing something?

-Chris

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