Re: Future devfs plans

From: Adrian Bunk
Date: Tue Jul 27 2004 - 17:40:49 EST


On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 05:24:15PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> 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.
>...

Please check the facts before sending such emails (or read at least all
mails in this thread).

alsa-base does _not_ contain any modules.

alsa-base only contains some scripts like the one that saves the ALSA
mixer settings on shutdown and restores them after booting.

> Lee

cu
Adrian

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