From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266158AbUGZXLp (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jul 2004 19:11:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266155AbUGZXLp (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jul 2004 19:11:45 -0400 Received: from sol.linkinnovations.com ([203.94.173.142]:18048 "EHLO theirongiant.lochness.weebeastie.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266158AbUGZXCi (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jul 2004 19:02:38 -0400 Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 09:01:16 +1000 From: CaT To: Ed Sweetman Cc: Adrian Bunk , Jim Gifford , "Adam J. Richter" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Future devfs plans Message-ID: <20040726230116.GA6339@zip.com.au> References: <200407261445.i6QEjAS04697@freya.yggdrasil.com> <057601c472a3$9df39ac0$d100a8c0@W2RZ8L4S02> <41044DA6.5080501@comcast.net> <20040726180901.GG11817@fs.tum.de> <41057B58.1040808@comcast.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41057B58.1040808@comcast.net> Organisation: Furball Inc. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040523i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 05:44:56PM -0400, Ed Sweetman wrote: > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > 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. > > And someone who compiles the kernel for themselves and never needs the Like I. > alsa-base deb wouldn't have any ability to create the devices. MAKEDEV alsa-base doesn't supply any modules: # apt-file list alsa-base alsa-base: etc/apm/event.d/alsa alsa-base: etc/devfs/conf.d/alsa alsa-base: etc/init.d/alsa alsa-base: usr/share/alsa-base/alsa-base.conf alsa-base: usr/share/alsa-base/modules-snippet.conf alsa-base: usr/share/alsa-base/program-wrapper alsa-base: usr/share/alsa-base/snddevices alsa-base: usr/share/doc/alsa-base/FAQ alsa-base: usr/share/doc/alsa-base/NEWS.Debian.gz alsa-base: usr/share/doc/alsa-base/README alsa-base: usr/share/doc/alsa-base/README.Debian alsa-base: usr/share/doc/alsa-base/SOUNDCARDS.gz alsa-base: usr/share/doc/alsa-base/WARNING alsa-base: usr/share/doc/alsa-base/changelog.Debian.gz alsa-base: usr/share/doc/alsa-base/copyright alsa-base: usr/share/doc/alsa-base/examples/modules-1.0.conf alsa-base: usr/share/linda/overrides/alsa-base alsa-base: usr/share/lintian/overrides/alsa-base And the init.d script doesn't do any loading of modules. It saves and restores the mixer settings. > is the proper place to create devices, not a separate snddevices > script. This is still a debian bug. Correct, for any version of debian where the supplied kernel is >= 2.6 I'd say. -- Red herrings strewn hither and yon.