Bug 7420 - Inconsistent detection of sound device in init/halt scripts
Summary: Inconsistent detection of sound device in init/halt scripts
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: initscripts
Version: 6.1
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bill Nottingham
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 1999-11-29 21:03 UTC by dim
Modified: 2014-03-17 02:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 1999-11-29 21:45:21 UTC
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Description dim 1999-11-29 21:03:56 UTC
To check if mixer settings can be loaded/saved, /proc/devices is grepped
for a sound entry, but this is done inconsistently in different init
scripts.

In /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit, where the settings are loaded, it says at line
290:
  grep -q "14 sound" /proc/devices 2>/dev/null

And in /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt, where the settings are saved, it says at line
54:
  grep -q "\(sparcaudio\|sound\)" /proc/devices

As the second method seems more portable (if sparcaudio is really used?
can't check since I have no sparc), I think it would be the best to also
use this for the first case.

Maybe it's better to move this "detection" to /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions,
ie something like:

checksound {
  return grep -q "\(sparcaudio\|sound\)" /proc/devices 2>/dev/null
}

which could then be used consistently in all init scripts.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 1999-11-29 21:45:59 UTC
fixed in initscripts-4.70-1. Thanks for noticing.


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