Hello!

while porting I found some packages that assume MAKEDEV will
have a 'generic' target. I made up one basing on the description
from the GNU/Linux MAKEDEV manpage:

       generic
              Create  a  generic  subset of devices.  This is the
              standard devices, plus floppy drives, various  hard
              drives,  pseudo-terminals,  console  devices, basic
              serial devices, busmice, and printer ports.

(leaving mouse and printer)
--- MAKEDEV.sh.old      Fri Jun  7 18:48:30 2002
+++ MAKEDEV.sh  Fri Jun  7 19:03:22 2002
@@ -84,7 +84,13 @@
         lose "Device names cannot contain directories" \
             "Change to target directory and run $0 from there."
        ;;
-
+      generic)
+       mkdev std ptyp ptyq
+       for i in 0 1 ; do mkdev fd$i ; done
+       for i in 0 1 2 3 4 ; do for j in '' s1 s2 s3 s4 s5 s6 s7 s8 s9 ; do \
+                                               mkdev hd$i$j ; done ; done
+       for i in 0 1 2 3 4 ; do mkdev com$i ; done
+       ;;
       std)
        mkdev console tty null zero full fd time mem klog shm kbd
        ;;

cheers,

Hello!

I sent this patch for MAKEDEV a while ago. Please could
you take it a look? this is debian bug #149309

thanks

Looking at that pathc, I notice you left out SCSI devices.  Was that
intentional?

The name sucks.  std sucks already, to have std and generic is hopeless
beyond any reason :)  But if it is just for compatibility, then that's not
so bad.  Just tell me, what packages did you work on that a generic target
exists?

Thanks,
Marcus

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