Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 6 Nov 2000 08:02:53 +0000 (GMT) | From | David Woodhouse <> | Subject | Re: Persistent module storage [was Linux 2.4 Status / TODO page] |
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On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Oliver Xymoron wrote:
> > 'init module' is still _after_ 'set mixer levels'. There is a period > > during which the mixer levels are changed. > > Perhaps you mean before? Otherwise you've lost me.
Yeah, sorry, not enough coffee yet this morning.
> > The desired mixer levels should be available to the module at the time of > > initialisation. > > Is this because active audio sources other than /dev/dsp writers are > suddenly in and out of the mix? If there's nothing on the inputs, it > shouldn't matter whether you're changing the levels.
Yes.
> The right way to do this (according to any sound engineer) is to > initialize all the levels to zero unless told otherwise. This would > doubtless annoy the average user, but is more or less equivalent to not > forwarding packets by default.
The current situation is equivalent to stopping forwarding packets each time an app on the local machine decides it wants to send its own packets, after a period of inactivity.
Defaulting to zero on boot is fine. Defaulting to zero after the module has been auto-unloaded and auto-loaded again is less good.
-- dwmw2
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