Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262496AbTEILnT (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 May 2003 07:43:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262497AbTEILnT (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 May 2003 07:43:19 -0400 Received: from gate.perex.cz ([194.212.165.105]:39429 "EHLO gate.perex.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262496AbTEILnR (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 May 2003 07:43:17 -0400 Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 13:55:16 +0200 (CEST) From: Jaroslav Kysela X-X-Sender: perex@pnote.perex-int.cz To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: "viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk" , "torvalds@transmeta.com" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove unused funcion proc_mknod In-Reply-To: <20030509134714.A3837@lst.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1008 Lines: 30 On Fri, 9 May 2003, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 01:43:20PM +0200, Jaroslav Kysela wrote: > > alsa-lib doesn't rely on it at all. The devices in /dev/snd/ might be > > created in these ways: > > > > 1) static - using the mknod command > > 2) using devfs > > 3) link /dev/snd to /proc/asound/dev > > > > We prefered the third solution because we were changing heavily the device > > minor numbers in the past. We can remove the proc dynamic device creating > > from our code now. I agree, this code should not be in the kernel tree. > > Okay. Will you submit the removal as part of the next alsa merge? Sure. I'll do it ASAP. Jaroslav ----- Jaroslav Kysela Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer ALSA Project, SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/