Alsaconf description is wrong

[alexander@…]

The current description of alsaconf is:

alsaconf is a configuration tool which tries to detect the sound cards on your system and write a suitable configuration file for ALSA.

Should be:

alsaconf is a useless program. It attempts to detect soundcards and write a modprobe.conf file, but this file only works on systems that don't utilize hotplug and udev.

Maybe it's better to explicitly remove this program.

[bdubbs@…]

The tone above seems a bit dramatic. What are the symptoms/behavior? Since it is a shell script, perhaps you can specify where it fails relatively easily.

With that said, we can add another sentence that says: "This program is incompatible with udev and hotplug."

The real solution should be to tell the alsa developers about the problem.

[alexander@…]

This program, as the only result, adds aliases to modprobe.conf. But aliases don't work with udev because of the chicken-and-egg program that is described in LFS.

As for the additional sentence, I agree.

[bdubbs@…]

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