hard-coded device filename list [LWN.net]

hard-coded device filename list

Posted Jun 16, 2008 10:48 UTC (Mon) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523)
In reply to: QUALITY ASSURANCE AND LINUX? by jwb
Parent article: Changes to Gobuntu

You are right about OSS being deprecated, of course.

However the concept of a fixed list of device filename to use is a ridiculous idea. Linux
allows to create any device file anywhere in the file system (and symlinks to device files),
and amarok should not restrict that by second-guessing the filesystem. 

I had the same problem with kppp and a USB-to-serial converter.

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