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On some soundcards, 'alsactl store' writes a seemingly useless 'comment.tlv' field in /etc/asound.state, which, upon the first 'alsactl restore', makes some unaesthetic 'XXX Write TLV' messages appear on console. count is depending on total number of tlv fields, currently two on my machine, but it could be as big as how many controls there is on the soundcard, which is 14 in mine. that could get pretty ugly.

I tried silencing it by adding the usual '2>&1 > /dev/null' but no luck, message still here ?!

Then, as a fix, I added this:

if [ ! -z strip_tlv ]; then
cat /etc/asound.state | sed 's/.*tlv.*//' > /etc/asound.state.tmp
mv /etc/asound.state.tmp /etc/asound.state
fi

and a strip_tlv="true" to my /etc/conf.d/alsa

now init output is much more quiet, consistent, and pretty, with no notable side effects.