Re: Future devfs plans

From: Adrian Bunk (bunk_at_fs.tum.de)
Date: 07/26/04

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To: Ed Sweetman <safemode@comcast.net>

    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 *** 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 

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