Hello,

I am writing a ALSA driver for the AtlasIII AC'97 Controller. The controller communicates with the AC'97 Codec and the necessary PCM, Sequencer, Control and Timer nodes are created in the /sys. Also I get the necessary information registered in the procfs under /proc/asound. However, I do not see any sound nodes created under /dev. Are these nodes created by the sound driver registration function which creates necessary files under /sys or will I have to use utilities like "snddevices" to create the "snd" node under /dev. I read that "snddevices" would create the necessary entries under /dev/snd, and I reckon that it does not create the entry "snd" under /dev. Although I am using kernel 2.6.19.2, it doesn't have the "udev" enabled. Will I need the "udev" to create these nodes under /dev?

Regards; Aadish