xanadu:~$ ls -l /proc/asound/dev
total 0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 116, 0 Jun 9 10:18 controlC0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 116, 8 Jun 9 10:18 midiC0D0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 116, 4 Jun 9 10:18 mixerC0D0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 116, 16 Jun 9 10:18 pcmC0D0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 116, 17 Jun 9 10:18 pcmC0D1
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 116, 33 Jun 9 10:18 timer
xanadu:~$
these are of course dynamically created based on what devices the sound
driver has detected. To use them, symlinks are supposed to be created in
dev(!). So instead of device nodes that can't be opened, we just have
dangling symlinks :(
Maybe the SCSI subsystem should dynamically create devices in
/proc/scsi/<controller>/<bus>/ too?
What I mean is, if ALSA is going to become a standard part of the kernel,
devfs would be a nice companion, so that we could avoid moving /dev into an
already somewhat ridiculous /proc filesystem.
Alan Cox writes:
>
> I just wonder if this shouldnt be generated by userspace, by
> ensuring the right helpful info is in /proc etc
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