Re: Future devfs plans

[Lee Revell]

On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 18:35, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 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.
> 

Apologies, I was incorrect.

Lee




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