Re: Future devfs plans

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>]

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

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