[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#240125: The new broken world of 2.6, ALSA, and hotplug.

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 11:11:11AM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:

> It's not at all clear to me that the hotplug framework is the right
> way to deal with automatically loading modules at boot time.  We have
> other schemes, such as /etc/modules, which work just as well, if not
> better.  (It's much easier to add modules that you *do* want to load
> at boot time, as opposed to needing to blacklist every single module
> you don't want ---- and in my case, the number of modules that I
> *don't* want to load, for power management reasons, ***far*** exceeds
> the number of modules that I want loaded automatically.)

I find hotplug to be a rather nice way to get the "right" modules loaded for
the common case.  I agree that it should have an easy toggle for users who
don't want it, but I think that it makes a fine default for most users.

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 - mdz