Comment 12 for bug 7337

On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 10:32:35AM +0200, Thomas Schmidt wrote:
> * Adrian Bunk schrieb am 07.08.04, um 16:57 Uhr:
> > On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 08:24:16PM -0600, Bdale Garbee wrote:
> > > Adrian Bunk <email address hidden> writes:
> > >
> > > > severity 263136 grave
> > >
> > > Grave? Surely you jest.
> >
> > It's an issue that should definitely fixed before Debian 3.1 .
>
> Yes, this issue should be discussed, but i do not see a simply way to
> solve it.
>
> One reason for keeping major 250 in sarge is that it is allmost sure
> that sarge wont ship (at release-time) a kernel, which uses 212, and
> the dvb-driver-source-package (for 2.4-users) also uses 250. So
> just changing makedev to use would 212 break the device-generation for
> most users of sarge. (At least a long as they use a kernel <=2.6.7 or
> the dvb-driver-source-package in sarge.)
>
> Ok, there are also reasons to change it, because it is clear that some
> sarge-users would like to use a kernel >=2.6.8, but i do not see how
> this change can be made without breaking the dvb-device-generation for
> the other sarge-users.
>...

I wouldn't call it nice, but what about the following workaround:

Add two dvb targets to MAKEDEV, and add an init script to makedev that
executes the correct one at boot time (depending on the kernel version).

> Regards,
> Thomas

cu
Adrian

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