sound problems and devfs

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 6 May 2002, Collins wrote:
> On Tue, 7 May 2002 07:02:21 +1000 Keith Antoine
> <kantoine at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> > On Monday 06 May 2002 11:40 pm, Net Llama! uttered words of wisdom:
> > > Keith,
> > > I have no experience with devfs, so i really can't offer any
> > > suggestions. Just wondering why you'r using devfs in the first
> > > place, when its really not 'stable' code?
> > > I've gotten everything you're struggling with working under the
> > > tracditional /dev/ system with mjpegtools, so this is definitely a
> > > devfs issue.
> >
> > Cos' mandrake 8.1 and 8.2 come with that by default. I am waiting
> > for the lastest Suse to see what that comes with.
> >
>
> Unstable or not, I've been using it for about two years on gentoo with
> no problems other than getting to know a different way of dealing with
> device permissions, and some pretty arcane syntax I must admit.  If
> it's setup properly, all the old names are there, and you shouldn't
> need to worry.
>
> Stable depends on your viewpoint.  It works 100% for me, and for the
> most part I'm not even aware it's there.

Or Linus's viewpoint, as devfs remains listed as an "EXPERIMENTAL" option
in the kernel config.

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