From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264648AbUGZARr (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Jul 2004 20:17:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264647AbUGZARr (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Jul 2004 20:17:47 -0400 Received: from sccrmhc13.comcast.net ([204.127.202.64]:62861 "EHLO sccrmhc13.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264648AbUGZARp (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Jul 2004 20:17:45 -0400 Message-ID: <41044DA6.5080501@comcast.net> Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 20:17:42 -0400 From: Ed Sweetman User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.1 (X11/20040715) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jim Gifford CC: "Adam J. Richter" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Future devfs plans References: <200407261445.i6QEjAS04697@freya.yggdrasil.com> <057601c472a3$9df39ac0$d100a8c0@W2RZ8L4S02> In-Reply-To: <057601c472a3$9df39ac0$d100a8c0@W2RZ8L4S02> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jim Gifford wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Adam J. Richter" >To: >Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 7:45 AM >Subject: Future devfs plans > > > > >>Do not delete devfs. >> >>devfs allows drivers to be loaded when user level programs >>need them, >>- >> >> >So will a proper modprobe.conf file. You don't need devfs for autoloading of >modules. > > > On a different note though, some systems have been made to rely soley on devfs, meaning there is no static /dev fs underneath it. Currently there is no documentation in the kernel source for going about migrating from a devfs only situation to a static or udev controlled /dev fs. 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.