On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 17:03:52 (EDT), Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > * Reinhard Tartler [100803 16:17 -0400]: >> On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 14:09:37 (EDT), Elimar Riesebieter wrote: >> >> > did one read the chapter "reloading modules across APM >> > suspend-and-resume" of /usr/share/doc/alsa-base/README.Debian? >> >> This is just working around bugs in the alsa drivers in a very crude >> way; I don't think that reloading modules is a good way to solve this >> problem. > > Why?
a) it doesn't work when the drivers are built statically into the kernel b) won't libasound2 and running applications be horribly confused when the device is being removed? > Do we have to discuss those bugs upstream [0] ? I'm really no alsa expert at all, but I imagine that libalsa manages some kind of handles for the available soundcards and their configurations. without knowing the details I cannot really say if and what problems this causes, it just feels from an application programmers POV very crude. -- Gruesse/greetings, Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org