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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cleaning /dev
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 23:40:01 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200407291940.01532.vapier@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040729021750.DA32C21B32F@ws5-6.us4.outblaze.com>

On Thursday 29 July 2004 07:26 pm, mike dixon wrote:
> gentoo (uses devfs by default).

it's because we cant use udev on 2.4.x ;)

> I removed devfs entirely and was a little surprised to see udev re-using
> some of the goofball names of devfs by creating links.  I imagined gentoo's
> script was doing that but don't know enough about udev yet to know if some
> of these names are being used somewhere else (now).

udev comes with a devfs-compatible script

if you dont want /dev being populated with the standard dev files, 
edit /etc/conf.d/rc and set RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="no"

if that's not enough, read our udev guide:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml
-mike


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-07-29 23:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-29  2:17 cleaning /dev mike dixon
2004-07-29  2:32 ` Mike Frysinger
2004-07-29 23:26 ` mike dixon
2004-07-29 23:40 ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
2004-07-31  0:16 ` mike dixon

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