Keith Clayton wrote:
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> That being said, I personally will not move to devfs until I see broad
> support by the distros. Sorry but I don't have time to dink around with
> devfsd and get my system up and running smoothly under the new semantics.
> I really have no interest in committing the time to breaking a working
> system and then re-fixing it for something that isn't clearly a long term
> direction yet. I agree with devfs' purpose but I want to see full scale
> commitment to this direction before I move to it.
So, what exactly is required to migrate a Debian or RedHat distro
installation to devfs? I have only compiled a kernel with devfs
support enabled once. And, of course, then my system wouldn't boot.
If it is painful, rather than *nearly impossible* to migrate a system
initialization setup to support devfs, then I am willing to do so in
order to provide testing. Also, it seems to me that if we believe in
the goals of devfs and the apparent "right" way to handle USB usermode
interactions is by migrating usbdevfs to devfs, then perhaps we should
just bite the bullet and pioneer creating new "dual-mode" init scripts
created for at least one distribution. Isn't it true that with a bit
of hacking, we could build enough smarts into the init scripts that
they would determine whether devfs was present and then handle that
situation? This seems to be a prerequisite for devfs getting much
testing. In other words, folks are going to need to be able to boot
successfully kernels both with or without devfs. At least, that seems
highly desirable to me.
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>
> Keith Clayton
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> The PPC rio500 guy
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