Comment 0 for bug 7337

Package: makedev
Version: 2.3.1-74
Severity: important

The Debian MAKEDEV creates dvb device files under /dev/dvb with major char
250 but 212 is the correct one. See this ChangeSet snippet from Linus'
bitkeeper tree for more info.

# ChangeSet
# 2004/07/28 22:58:23-07:00 <email address hidden>
# [PATCH] DVB major number
#
# The DVB merge forgot an important change - DVB is currently using
# major 250, which is "local" while devices.txt (and thus FSSTND/LSB)
# require
# it uses the officially allocated 212 major.
#
# Fortunately most 2.6 users don't currently use DVB and vendors ship
# devfs
# or versions of makedev that do the right thing and generate 212
# majors.
#
# Fix below, original author: Red Hat <email address hidden>, OSDL
# certificate
# of authorship included by reference.
#
# Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <email address hidden>
# Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <email address hidden>
#
# drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvbdev.h
# 2004/07/28 21:58:33-07:00 <email address hidden> +1 -1
# DVB major number

br,
Tuomas Jormola <email address hidden>

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-mm5-udm1
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI@euro

Versions of packages makedev depends on:
ii base-passwd 3.5.7 Debian base system master password

-- no debconf information