"Missing, Reward Offered: /proc/asound/dev"

"Missing, Reward Offered: /proc/asound/dev"

[Chip Salzenberg]

OK, I'm in the habit of playing with the CVS drivers, and of course
when it breaks it's my own fault, and that's fine ... but:

Today I see in CVS that the "/proc/asound/dev" directory is not just
temporarily broken; its support has been entirely removed.  Now none
of my alsa apps (well, OK, I only have two) are happy, nor do they
have any prospect of being happy in the future.

Can I get a "WTF?" from the congregation?!  Amen!
-- 
Chip Salzenberg               - a.k.a. -               <chip@pobox.com>
"I wanted to play hopscotch with the impenetrable mystery of existence,
    but he stepped in a wormhole and had to go in early."  // MST3K


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Re: "Missing, Reward Offered: /proc/asound/dev"

[Takashi Iwai]

At Fri, 16 May 2003 16:50:18 -0400,
Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> 
> OK, I'm in the habit of playing with the CVS drivers, and of course
> when it breaks it's my own fault, and that's fine ... but:
> 
> Today I see in CVS that the "/proc/asound/dev" directory is not just
> temporarily broken; its support has been entirely removed.  Now none
> of my alsa apps (well, OK, I only have two) are happy, nor do they
> have any prospect of being happy in the future.

well, the device files on proc fs seem not favorite of kernel people,
and we are trying to remove them entirely.  the current cvs version
supports only static device files or devfs for the dynamic device
files.

please remove the symlink on /dev/snd and run snddevices script in
alsa-driver package to create static device files.  once after you
made them, everything should work as it was.


Takashi


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