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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.