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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next prev 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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