Comment 24 for bug 14851

I wrote:
> See request #305154 in the Debian BTS.

I wonder what to do about this. The Debian udev maintainer tells me that he does not want to
create /dev/aloadCx and /dev/aloadSEQ because he thinks that these files "should" be
under /dev/snd/; however the current ALSA library only supports their being in /dev/. I have
filed a request in the ALSA BTS that alsa-lib look for these files both in /dev/snd/ and
in /dev/; one of the ALSA developers responded positively but indicated that implementing this
feature is not very high on his list of priorities. So it seems that in order to get Debian udev
to add these files, someone (viz., myself) would have to prepare an alsa-lib patch. I don't
think that I will find the time to do that.

In an upcoming (Debian) release a udev rules file will have to be added to alsa-base. At that
time I will see if alsa-base can be further modified so that it configures udev to
create /dev/aloadCx and /dev/aloadSEQ.