hardware is available, as well as get the relevant
devices required to run said hardware. With devfs gone, installers, some
embedded configurations, and possibly others, may find their time much
harder.
If you used devfs to find out what hardware you're running on, then you
should consider using
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
If you used devfs to find out what hardware you're running on, then
you should consider using sysfs instead. It's an official part of 2.6
anyway.
Yes, I know. It's just that sysfs's way of giving you the major/minor
numbers, and leaving you with the question of ok, so
Shachar Shemesh wrote:
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
If you used devfs to find out what hardware you're running on, then
you should consider using sysfs instead. It's an official part of 2.6
anyway.
Yes, I know. It's just that sysfs's way of giving you the major/minor
numbers, and leaving you
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
Congratulations!
You just re-invented udev (sort of).
I know :-(. Thing is, udev still doesn't exactly solve my problem - it
does not give me preknown names for devices for specific hardware (not
unless I invest the same amount of work or more as writing the script I
, as well as get the relevant
devices required to run said hardware. With devfs gone, installers, some
embedded configurations, and possibly others, may find their time much
harder.
My main question is - does anyone know of a good alternative?
Shachar
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005, Shachar Shemesh wrote about devfs - gone:
Devfs has been a great way to quickly (say - inside an initrd) get a
..
My main question is - does anyone know of a good alternative?
I believe what you're looking for is udev, isn't it?
Check out
http://www.kernel.org/pub
- inside an initrd) get a
clear picture of what hardware is available, as well as get the relevant
devices required to run said hardware. With devfs gone, installers, some
embedded configurations, and possibly others, may find their time much
harder.
This was discussed quite thoroughly on lkml
On 9/5/05, Shachar Shemesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
The new kernel (2.6.13) has removed support for devfs. While I certainly
Hi Shachar,
Look in one of the latest kernel-traffick issues:
1. Devfs wasn't removed completly, only the option to configure
it. I believe it will be easy
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 07:43:57AM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote:
1. Devfs wasn't removed completly, only the option to configure
it. I believe it will be easy for you to find the right flags to enable
it and add them manually.
CONFIG_DEVFS, naturally. That would be the wrong thing to do, as
