> > Just make the driver initialize the device with 0 levels so that it
> > cannot make any noise until the proper mixer levels have been loaded
> > from userspace. Is this too simple?
>
> That's better than the current situation, but the ideal (IMO) is for the levels
> to remain exactly as they were before the driver was loaded.
For hardware which supports this, it's obviously the Right Thing. However, it
wouldn't surprise me to find that there are a number of broken devices out
there that don't let you read the mixer levels, only set them.
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