[clug] sound device weirdness

[Bob Edwards]

Andrew Pollock wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 11:54:30AM +1100, Tony and Ropyn Lewis wrote:
> 
>>Andrew Pollock wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Are you running devfs or udev? I'm suspecting you may be running udev,
>>>otherwise your /dev doesn't change... It could be a udev bug.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Not as far as I can see:
>>
>>lewis at goofy:~$ grep DEVFS /boot/config-2.6.9-2-k7
>>CONFIG_DEVFS_FS=y
>># CONFIG_DEVFS_MOUNT is not set
>># CONFIG_DEVFS_DEBUG is not set
>>lewis at goofy:~$ dpkg -l udev
>>Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
>>| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
>>|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: 
>>uppercase=bad)
>>||/ Name                        Version                     Description
>>+++-===========================-===========================-======================================================================
>>un  udev                        <none>                      (no 
>>description available)
>>
>>
> 
> 
> I take it you're running a stock Debian kernel? They have devfs compiled in
> (CONFIG_DEVFS_FS) so if you install devfsd and change /etc/default/devfsd to
> mount it on bootup, it might help keep things under control.
> 
> Static /dev is boring.
> 
> regards
> 
> Andrew
> 

Is devfs fully supported in 2.6 kernels? I thought someone told me
recently that it was being deprecated (in favour of udev or something).
I guess I should look into this a bit more myself :-)

Cheers,

Bob Edwards.