Re: Future devfs plans

[Lee Revell]

On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 17:44, Ed Sweetman wrote:
> Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 
> >On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 08:17:42PM -0400, Ed Sweetman wrote:
> >     
> >  apt-get install alsa-base
> >
> >  
> >
> 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.

Ditto someone hacking on ALSA, or who needs to use ALSA CVS to get some
new feature, who doesn't want to have to build a .deb every time they
recompile.

This is a debian bug and not a valid objection to ditching devfs.

Lee

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