On Fri, Oct 01, Gerd wrote:
> Hello Kai, hello all,
>
>
> [/dev/bc*]
> > >
> > > They exist but they will not be used. The kernel will not recognise them.
> > > SuSE shouldn't ship them any more. None of my Debian systems have
> > > ever had them.
> >
> > We are shipping the old kernel 2.0.36 as fallback so the devices could be
> > useful.
>
> No, I think together with very old versions of the AX25-HOWTO they
> will confuse the newcomers since they are really not needed
> anymore.
> I still remember how we first started (and gave up soon) fiddling
> around with Packet Radio under Linux. There were a lot of different
> patches and versions of the ax25-utilities and also, of the HOWTO
> documents with sometimes misunderstandable contents.
>
> Since kernel 2.0.35 at least, all the AX.25 drivers are providing
> network devices as interfaces. (Read the AX.25-HOWTO, even the
> original version 1.7 is still up to date in that point.)
>
> So IMHO you can safely drop all the AX.25 related devices under
> /dev .
Ok, good point. I will tell our developers to drop these devices from the
devs.rpm. This applies to /dev/scc? also, I assume?
73, Kai
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