From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Frysinger Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 23:40:01 +0000 Subject: Re: cleaning /dev Message-Id: <200407291940.01532.vapier@gentoo.org> List-Id: References: <20040729021750.DA32C21B32F@ws5-6.us4.outblaze.com> In-Reply-To: <20040729021750.DA32C21B32F@ws5-6.us4.outblaze.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open Source Technology Group. Come see the changes on the new OSTG site. www.ostg.com _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel