Bug#296958: Problem with creating device files.

[Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo]

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El jue, 31-03-2005 a las 09:54 +0200, Kilian Krause escribi=C3=B3:
> Hi Tzafrir,
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> Am Donnerstag, den 31.03.2005, 07:07 +0200 schrieb Tzafrir Cohen:
> > On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 12:04:32AM +0200, Kilian Krause wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > > > The default kernel of Sarge uses nither. So it is relevant.=20
> > > >=20
> > > >   Yes, we need to create "usual" devices by default. If not, it won=
't
> > > > work for a lot of users.
> > >=20
> > > yes, so we need a MAKEDEV bug to have /dev/zap* support in there..
> > >=20
> > > > >=20
> > > > > So what group did we want to give them?
> > > >=20
> > > >   This is the same question I made when I asked about device
> > > > permissions... so that need to be answered first.
> > >=20
> > > the zaptel devices are permissioned 0660 for root.audio following the
> > > "sound" Section of the package itself.
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> > And those devices are related to "audio" becasue?
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> because zaptel is an "audio driver" to the debian archive (looking at
> the Section). It therefore has audio devices which have a control
> channel and interface with the PSTN. See them as a
> "MoDem" (Modulator-Demodulator), like an ancient accoustic coupler or a
> newer voice-modem-lookalike.
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> IMHO, if we consider them to be a digital modem/network entity rather
> than a voice-modem, we should move zaptel to "comm" consistently
> (meaning we need the overrides file adjusted). If we however look at
> ISDN devices which we need for chan_capi, they're in the dialout group.
> So there's good reason to tell zaptel (in the digital version) needs to
> move over to comm.
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> As for overrides: there's 3 new ftpmasters now, so I'd say there's hope
> if we're asking for the alteration, it'd be changed soon enough.
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> Santiago, any specific other reason you put it into sound in the first
> place?
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> > If a console user gets permissions to write to audio devices, should
> > that user get pemissions to write to zaptel devices?
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> Well, from a personal point, I'd prefer dialout here. But it'd need to
> be consistently thought through.

 So it seems that we agree on using dialout. I am going to fill that bug
NOW.

 After this, we can ask for overrides change, but that is something we
don't need to worry about now. Still, we should try to put those
packages in Sarge.

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Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
   jsogo@debian.org

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