Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Jul 2004 17:44:56 -0400 | From | Ed Sweetman <> | Subject | Re: Future devfs plans |
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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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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