Juan Quintela wrote:

>>>>>>"magallon" == J A Magallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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>magallon> On 20011031 Juan Quintela wrote:
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>>>--=-=-=
>>>Name        : kernel                       Relocations: (not relocateable)
>>>Version     : 2.4.13                            Vendor: MandrakeSoft
>>>Release     : 2mdk                          Build Date: Tue Oct 30 16:28:41 2001
>>>
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>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.


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