sound: add hw.snd.default.*

[fuz]

Summary

These sysctls permit setting default mixer volumes for newly attached
snd(4) devices.

Test Plan

works on my machine

[christos]

Note that this won't have any effect after a device driver has initialized. snd_mixerdefaults is only used in mixer_init(), so any change with these sysctls will require a driver re-load for the new defaults to take effect. I suppose this is not really an issue if these defaults are set and "forgotten" in a config file, though.

To be fair though, thinking again about our conversation on IRC, I think this approach might not be the best. The reason is that currently we have the following ways of changing/setting mixer levels:

• mixer(8), and any other mixer application (mixertui, gtk-mixer, dsbmixer, ...), which may or may not be more complete in terms of functionality, so something like this might already be solved by some application.
• The mixer rc script.
• hint.pcm.%d.{mixercontrol}=%d. This actually is similar to what your patch does, but is device-specific. See mixer_init().

And this patch will introduce one more way to do level setting. I think having such a scattered way of doing just this thing is quite ugly. I'd prefer a single way to handle all this.

sys/dev/sound/pcm/mixer.c

1587

Stray newline.

[bcr]

OK for the man page part of the change.