Re: git: 903873ce1560 - main - Implement and use new mixer(3) library for FreeBSD.

From: Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling_at_kev009.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2021 20:37:51 UTC
On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 3:17 AM Christos Margiolis
<christos@margiolis.net> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 04, 2021 at 10:48:03AM +0200, Mateusz Piotrowski wrote:
> > Hmm, I agree that mute and volume controls in the new CLI interface are very
> > consistent. However, in case of the old CLI interface, the mute
> > functionality could also be added without a problem (at least by looking at
> > the manual pages, the "mute" command could look like this: "mixer mute
> > vol"). My point is that I feel that the CLI interface should be
> > backwards-compatible in this case.
>
> I think the new interface is more readable and extensible than the old
> one, and, as you mentioned, mixer(8) did need an upgrade, so it might be
> better to have it changed from now on and keep the old version as a port,
> than to keep working on an -- in my opinion -- obsolete interface and code.
>
> > > Would it help to make a port, like "oldmixer", under "audio" ?
> >
> > That's a good idea. I've committed the "old" mixer to the ports tree: https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=e9a0efe4509b8dbdef0b4e4b5b94abf0aebd78a9.
>
> Yeap, that's a good idea indeed.

I still get a bunch of spam from rc.d on boot and it doesn't seem to
save my mixer settings on shutdown, is there some settings file I
should blow away or is there a better way to handle upgrades?

> --
> Christos
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