Re: udev not ready for prime time

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 08:02:02AM -1000, joelinux@earthlink.net wrote:
> As far as I can tell "udev" is a big mess which has caused a lot of
> problems and aggravation for a lot of people.  Could you send me a
> list of the Linux Distributions that have actually seccessfuly
> implimented it?  SuSE 10.0 is the only one I know of, and even then
> it's marginal at best.  Your team should do some research as to why so
> many people are having such a hard time with it.  At the present time
> it's not user friendly or even developer friendly.

I'm sorry you feel this way, is there any specific problems you are
having with it that we can help you out with?   Any specific version of
udev and the kernel that is causing you problems?

And here's a list of distros that I know ship with udev:
	RHEL 4
	Fedora Core (3, 4, 5)
	SLES 9
	SuSE 10.0
	SuSE 10.1 betas
	SLES 10 betas
	SLED 10 betas
	Mandrake/Mandriva
	Slackware
	Debian
	Gentoo
	CentOS 4
	Linux from Scratch
And I'm sure the other people can provide more examples of distros that
I'm not aware of at the moment.

Also note that _every_ one of the above distros picked up udev on their
own as it solves problems that they had with a static /dev.  None of the
udev developers asked them to do it.

thanks,

greg k-h


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