On Tue, 23.11.10 10:44, Jaroslav Kysela (perex@perex.cz) wrote:
Heya,
Up to this point most distributions have been using different init scripts/udev rules files to save/restore mixer settings at boot/hotplug/shutdown. Please see my two attached patches for alsa-utils which add standardized, simplified support for this.
The first patch is stolen from Debian/Ubuntu, which moves asound.state to /var/lib, which is a more appropriate place, since /etc might be read-only.
This will break users which upgrade the package manually from sources and /var/lib/alsa directory is not created. I think that the 'make install' rules should create this directory and also alsaconf should check/create this directory if it does not exists.
See attached patch. This will now ensure the directory is created both at install time and when alsaconf is run.
Also, I made the path configurable, as requested by Takashi, however set the default to /var/lib/alsa.
Given that most big distributions are moving to adopt systemd sooner or later it would be great to have support for this in the upstream package to avoid further balkanization how things are done here.
I applied this second patch to the alsa-utils repo.
Thanks!
Lennart