try to run MAKEDEV if i2c-dev device files are missing

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Hi Hans,

On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 07:54:29 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Jean Delvare wrote:
> > First of all, a question: how many i2c device nodes does your MAKEDEV
> > create? The one I have in Slackware 9.1 only creates i2c-0 and i2c-1.
> > This might not be sufficient. Not our fault though.
> 
> Mine version create i2c-0 - i2c-7

Much more reasonable.

> > Secondly, MAKEDEV was in /dev on Slackware, so maybe we could test both
> > locations?
> 
> I had laready thought about that, as it used to be in /dev with Fedora / RH 
> once too, but that was a long time ago. I thought al distro's would have fixed 
> that by now.
> 
> I'll add checking for and running of /dev/MAKEDEV to svn in a couple of minutes.

Good, thanks.

> > Then, the good news is that we should be able to drop the reference to
> > prog/mkdev/mkdev.sh, and finally delete it from the lm-sensors package
> > (in branch 3.0.0). I don't plan to move it to i2c-tools. On new systems
> > it's not needed. On old systems, MAKEDEV should do the work.

I've done that now.

-- 
Jean Delvare




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