From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 12 06:24:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id GAA29147 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 12 Jan 1997 06:24:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (fallout.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id GAA29142 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 1997 06:24:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id JAA01448; Sun, 12 Jan 1997 09:24:35 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 09:24:34 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber To: Bruce Evans cc: julian@whistle.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sound driver/devfs change, round 2 In-Reply-To: <199701120629.RAA28317@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 12 Jan 1997, Bruce Evans wrote: > >Next question, currently there are unnumbered aliases for unit > >zero, eg audio -> audio0. Should that also be left to a startup > >script? > > Probably. The aliases are only for confus^H^H^Hvenience. If you > keep them, then they should have tokens. Removed. > > #ifdef DEVFS > > /* XXX */ /* should only create devices if that card has them */ > > #define SND_UID 0 > >! #define SND_GID 0 > > These 0's are still magic. They should be spelled as UID_ROOT and > GID_WHEEL. All calls to devfs_add_devswf() now reference UID_ROOT and GID_WHEEL; SND_UID and SND_GID have been removed. Barring any objections, I'll commit this to current so (hopefully) some people with soundcards other than soundblaster 16 can try it out. -john