Re: State of devfs in 2.6?

Jan Dittmer
2003-12-09T09:59:25Z

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Greg KH wrote:
| On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 08:02:19AM +0100, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
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|>>Regardless of the state of udev, devfs has insolvable problems and you
|>>should not use it. End of story.
|>
|>how many bug reports did you see in the last three months of people
|>having problems with devfs?
|
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| I don't think that all 4 users of devfs on 2.6 are all that vocal :)
| Either way, I haven't been paying attention, as I really don't care.
|

FWIW, I've been using devfs from the beginning of 2.4 and with 2.5/2.6
with Debian and never had a problem (knock on wood). I really like the
way of having device nodes only for present devices.
Btw. I still haven't figured out, how to use udev properly. I just get
the nodes of devices I plugin after boot and of the modules I load after
boot. IDE et all aren't showing up. How early do I need to load udev or
has my kernel to be all modular for it to work properly?

Thanks,

Jan
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