On 2013-01-15 17:57 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 15.01.2013 16:22, schrieb Yaro Kasear:
>
>> Back when I used Gentoo most times the devtmpfs system wasn't even
>> enabled in my kernel or in its default configs. From all I can find out
>> devtmpfs is merely an option most distributions don't actually use that
>> much because udev already handles these things.
>
> The question was about Debian and the default Debian kernels have
> devtmpfs enabled since squeeze and it is used by default since then.
>
> In older versions of udev (including the one which is shipped with
> wheezy) you could still run udev withouth devtmpfs, though.
I think udev has issued a warning at startup for a long time if the
kernel does not support devtmpfs.
> Afaik, in recent version of udev, devtmpfs has become mandatory.
Correct, udev does no longer create or remove device nodes.
> This happened around v180+ something.
Version 176 actually.
Cheers,
Sven
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