> > On Sat, 26 Jan 2002 21:16, Borsenkow Andrej wrote:
> > > could the following lines be added to the modules.devfsd?
> > > --------------
> > > # Irda devices
> > > alias /dev/ircomm ircomm-tty
> > > alias /dev/ircomm* /dev/ircomm
> > > --------------
> >
> > Surely this is an issue for the irda package not the devfsd package?
It is correct to the extent that if you do not use IrDA (specifically
IrCOMM protocol) you do not need these lines
> > I am resisting adding such things for the Debian package, I want the
> > maintainers of the packages to do it for two reasons. Firstly it
> > prevents the requirement for an update of devfsd every time these
> > packages change. Secondly there could potentially be a situation
> > where two different versions of the package require two different
> > configurations for these things. Having it in the package allows
> > the package maintainer to easily resolve such issues.
>
> So what's different about this than all the other entries in
> modules.devfs? I don't know details about IrDA, so please explain the
> issues.
>
> Is the above config generic or specific to one configuration of IrDA?
>
It is generic. IrCOMM devices are called /dev/ircomm[0-9]+ on every
system.
I too think that implementing per-package addition would be really nice.
But I am strongly against editing single monolithic configuration file.
If we ever have per-package config - please, implement support for
/etc/devfsd.d directory where packages can drop config files as needed.
Regards
-andrej
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