Messages in this thread |  | | From | David Woodhouse <> | Subject | Re: Persistent module storage [was Linux 2.4 Status / TODO page] | Date | Mon, 06 Nov 2000 15:34:54 +0000 |
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jas88@cam.ac.uk said: > Irrelevant. The current mixer settings don't matter: what matters is > that the driver does not change them.
It does matter. The sound driver needs to be able to _read_ the current levels. Almost all mixer programs will start by doing this, to set the slider to the correct place.
> > The driver needs to reset the card to the desired levels.
> What desired levels? The only desired levels are the current ones, > which the driver does not and (sometimes) cannot know. Leave well > alone.
It does not know them. Correct. But with persistent module storage, it _could_ know them. It cannot know them the _first_ time the module is loaded after booting. That's fine. On subsequent loads, it can and should DTRT.
-- dwmw2
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