Re: Future devfs plans

[Ed Sweetman]

Adrian Bunk wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 08:17:42PM -0400, Ed Sweetman wrote:
>  
>
> > ...
> > On 
> > top of that, MAKEDEV as distributed at least by debian, doesn't create 
> > alsa devices and there is no script in the kernel source tree that i've 
> > found that allows the device creation.  One would have to go download 
> > the alsa-driver package from the alsa-project website and use the 
> > snddevices.sh script.  Since alsa-driver is integrated with the kernel 
> > now, this device creation script should be included in the kernel source 
> > or if that's not the place for such a file, we'll have to get on 
> > debian's butt to have MAKEDEV updated to actually support it.
> >    
>
>
>
>  apt-get install alsa-base
>
>
> Check
>
>  /var/lib/dpkg/info/alsa-base.postinst
>
> and (surprise, surprise!), you'll note the snddevices script is executed 
> when installing the alsa-base package.
>
>
> cu
> Adrian
>
>  
And someone who compiles the kernel for themselves and never needs the 
alsa-base deb wouldn't have any ability to create the devices.  MAKEDEV 
is the proper place to create devices, not a separate snddevices 
script.  This is still a debian bug.
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