From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tupshin Harper Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 09:13:27 +0000 Subject: initial udev foray...successes and failures... Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org As a long time devfs user and MAKEDEV hater(mostly for aesthetic reason), I decided to bite the bullet and see how close to usable udev is. The platform: Debian Sid kernel 2.6.0-test11+ hotplug that comes with sid udev 0.009 built for debian downloaded from: http://www.bofh.it/~md/debian/ The scenario: the Debian udev package creates everything in /udev. I moved /dev out of the way, symlinked /udev to /dev and rebooted (ahhh...glorious optimism). What worked: Most things, including (to my surprise) lvm2 which had been running on the devfs setup. What didn't: 1) anything that needed /dev/null 2) anything that needed /dev/random (and probably urandom...didn't check) 3) anything other that single user mode, since /dev/tty[0-9] were not present ..just /dev/tty What was odd: I have a number of ide hard drives in this machine(9). The first two (hda, and hdb) and their partitions showed up as symlinks to /dev/ide/host0/etc... The rest of them were not symlinks and were placed directly in /dev (e.g. /dev/hde and /dev/hde3). Despite these oddities, I was able to manually create /dev/null, /dev/random, and /dev/tty[0-9] and everything on my machine worked. So...given the limited information that seems to be available for udev, I have a few questions: 1) should the missing devices be created by udev? Is this a [known] problem? 2) Why are some drives symlinked and others not? 3) Does it make sense that the debian package operates on /udev and I'm testing it by creating a symlink to /dev? If not, how should things be done? -Tupshin ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id78&alloc_id371&op=click _______________________________________________ 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