From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262344AbTLKWQM (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Dec 2003 17:16:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263447AbTLKWQM (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Dec 2003 17:16:12 -0500 Received: from smtp06.iddeo.es ([62.81.186.16]:58053 "EHLO smtp06.retemail.es") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262344AbTLKWQI (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Dec 2003 17:16:08 -0500 Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 23:16:04 +0100 From: "J.A. Magallon" To: Lista Linux-Kernel Subject: udev for dummies Message-ID: <20031211221604.GA2939@werewolf.able.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Mailer: Balsa 2.0.15 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi all... I am starting to use 2.6, and I really would like to use udev. But I can't find a doc about how to move from taditional heavily populated /dev to new method. Any pointer ? I have installed udev and hotplug utils, and have hotplug enabled in kernel. As I undestand it, I should do now something like - run udev for the first time, so it populates /udev - check that basic dev files are there - move /dev to /dev.old, and ln -s /udev /dev (or real-move it and change udev.conf to write directly on /dev) Or just create and empty /dev, and let hotplug call hotplug scripts on boot which in turn call udev. Is this correct ? Will hotplug call udev for the built-in drivers ? Could it also work without hotplugging, ie, can I use udev to just create a minimal /dev for my system ? After installing udev, I run /sbin/udev and nothing appears on /udev. What am I missing / misunderstanding ? TIA -- J.A. Magallon \ Software is like sex: werewolf!able!es \ It's better when it's free Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Cooker) for i586 Linux 2.6.0-test11-jam1 (gcc 3.3.1 (Mandrake Linux 9.2 3.3.1-4mdk))