Juan Quintela wrote: >>>>>>"magallon" == J A Magallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>>>> > >magallon> On 20011031 Juan Quintela wrote: > >>>--=-=-= >>>Name : kernel Relocations: (not relocateable) >>>Version : 2.4.13 Vendor: MandrakeSoft >>>Release : 2mdk Build Date: Tue Oct 30 16:28:41 2001 >>> > >magallon> Could you think on removing devfs from mdk kernels and >magallon> return to traditional /dev ? As I have read in the kernel >magallon> mailing list, it is the biggest pile of crap in the kernel, >magallon> with nearly a bug per code line, giving all sort of lock >magallon> problems in SMP and so on... > >By default, devfs is not activated anymore, if you don't have >devfs=mount option, it don't loads. As if we are going to deactivate >it or not, I still dont' know. Some people really like its >funtionalities, indeed if it is bad :( As sugested in the list > >Later, Juan. > > Well, in fresh installs drakx by default makes lilo entries (for linux and failsafe) with devfs=mount. Not your fault, but that should be made clear. At least it did this morning.
Regards.