From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: mike Subject: Re: devfs Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 07:09:41 -0700 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <4020FD25.5060907@kevino.org> References: <401F1A29.80107@kevino.org> <40208F5E.8020504@kevino.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <40208F5E.8020504@kevino.org> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org mike wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > >> >> >> >> Based on past experience with mdk8.2, which used devfs and worked >> extremely badly for me, I'd recommend doing without. However, that's a >> lot easier said than done. You'll need to create static devices, and >> you won't be able to do this while devfs is blocking access to the real >> underlying /dev, which means booting from a recovery CD as well as >> knowing which devices you need, and which groups should own them. >> >> I also take the view that most people don't change their underlying >> hardware and peripherals very often, so for me manually adding a device >> when I add a usb printer is par for the course. If you don't want that >> level of involvement and you don't have any problems with it, keep it. > > > I think I'll keep it, sounds like it does alot for me which I'm not > knowledgeable enough to do for myself. At least at this point in my > learning process :-) > >> Funnily enough, based on an email a little while ago on lkml about udev, >> I thought Mandrake had already moved away from devfs. [ udev >> reimplements some of what devfs does, with 2.6 kernels, but its still at >> an early stage and certainly not intended as a drop-in replacement. ] >> >> Ken > > > Thanks for reply Ken. > -- Mike - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs