[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#500562: alsa-base: duplicate `install snd' spec in modprobe.d

[Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe]

Package: alsa-base
Version: 1.0.17.dfsg-4

Hello,

/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base contains two `install snd' lines:
	# Cause optional modules to be loaded above generic modules
	install snd /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet snd-ioctl32 ; : ; }
	install snd /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet snd-seq ; }
	#

The `install' behaviour of modprobe.conf-files isn't really well
documented. However, while looking through modprobe.c you can see that
only the last `install' line for a given module is executed.
Thus, it would make more sense to put those both lines together like
	install snd /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet snd-ioctl32 ; /sbin/modprobe --quiet snd-seq ; }

Feel free to escalate this bug to module-init-tools for a better
documentation of the `install' config directive.


regards
   Mario
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