On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 07:49:34PM +0200, Michiel de Bruijne wrote: > On Thursday 07 July 2005 00:46, Greg KH wrote: > > Ok, now that devfs is removed from the 2.6 kernel tree[1], I think it's > > time to start to revisit some of the /dev naming rules that we currently > > are living with[2]. > > > > To start with, the 061 version of udev offers a big memory savings if > > you use the "default" kernel name of a device[3]. If you do that, it does > > not create a file in its database in /dev/.udevdb/ > > Are there any ebuilds in the tree that are not sysfs/udev-aware?
Not that I am aware of. Anyone else know of any? > I.o.w. is it still necessary to have RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="yes" as a > default or can we move to a pure udev system and change the default to > "no". I've been running my boxes successfully with "no" since the option showed up just fine :) thanks, greg k-hj -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
