On Sunday 23 January 2005 07:01 pm, Daniel Drake wrote:
> Jerry McBride wrote:
> > I won't shoot you, but the difference may be that I don't use devfs or
> > udev on any of my gentoo projects.
>
> Gentoo defaults to devfs and provides udev as an option. So for 99.9% of
> users this is automatically done. I guess there are still some who live
> with a static /dev though...
>
> > That aside, there's virually no documentaion, anywhere, that tells you
> > how to make the needed devices. Quite odd too.
>
> Probably because they expect you to be running a /dev manager, and
> realistically most people are. If you aren't, then its perfectly expected
> that you need to make the device nodes for non-standard kernel modules the
> first time you use them.
>
>
Svgalib has been out since before devfs or udev.... Doesn't it seem odd that
there's little to no documentation on making the device nodes to use it? In
fact, the nodes aren't even in MAKEDEV.
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