Re: How to package device files?

[grante@visi.com (Grant Edwards)]

In linux.debian.devel, you wrote:
> grante@visi.com (Grant Edwards) writes:
> 
>> I tried MAKEDEV and it replies 
>> 
>>       don't know how to make device "/dev/ttyR0"
>>       
>> So doing a mknod seems to be the only option, and that's a
>> policy violation?
> 
> It knows rocketport|ttyR,

Doh!  I should have spotted that.  

> there's a bug 124263 about the fact that it doesn't handle
> explicit requests for individual devices of the ttyRnn form
> right now.

I guess I'll just do MAKEDEV ttyR, even though it creates 8 times as
many minor devices as I need.

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