mike wrote:
Ken Moffat wrote:
Based on past experience with mdk8.2, which used devfs and worked
extremely badly for me, I'd recommend doing without. However, that's a
lot easier said than done. You'll need to create static devices, and
you won't be able to do this while devfs is blocking access to the real
underlying /dev, which means booting from a recovery CD as well as
knowing which devices you need, and which groups should own them.
I also take the view that most people don't change their underlying
hardware and peripherals very often, so for me manually adding a device
when I add a usb printer is par for the course. If you don't want that
level of involvement and you don't have any problems with it, keep it.
I think I'll keep it, sounds like it does alot for me which I'm not
knowledgeable enough to do for myself. At least at this point in my
learning process :-)
Funnily enough, based on an email a little while ago on lkml about udev,
I thought Mandrake had already moved away from devfs. [ udev
reimplements some of what devfs does, with 2.6 kernels, but its still at
an early stage and certainly not intended as a drop-in replacement. ]
Ken
Thanks for reply Ken.
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Mike
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