Re: State of devfs in 2.6?

Måns Rullgård
2003-12-09T10:58:49Z

Andrew Walrond <andrew@walrond.org> writes:

> My initial query has thrown up lots of interesting debate :)
>
> I, like most people I suspect, love the concept of a complete auto-populated
> dev directory, and not having to MAKEDEV.

So do I.

> devfs provided this, but like most people who read LKML, I stopped using it
> when it's problems were discussed.
>
> I really hope udev lives up to its promise, unlike devfs. Manually creating /
> dev just annoys me for no apparent reason other than it's plain inelegance I
> suppose.

Does anyone else remember all the talk about the supreme elegance of
devfs back when it was new?

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