Re: [gentoo-user] How to backout devfs?

2003-10-29 Thread Frank Schäfer
Hi Philippe, problems with drivers of this type can be solved in /etc/devfsd.conf. Regards Frank On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 11:21, Philippe Van Hecke wrote: > On Monday 27 October 2003 11:04, Frank Schäfer wrote: > > ... but why the hick do you want to do this? > Some drivers like aacraid doesn't su

Re: [gentoo-user] How to backout devfs?

2003-10-28 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 27 October 2003 05:04 am, Frank Schäfer wrote: > Hi, this howto is veryveryvery short. > > 1. don't compile devfs in the kernel > 2. don't start devfsd > 3. run /sbin/MAKEDEV, to create all the devices you need > > ... but why the hick do you want to do this? > DEVFS is marged as being d

Re: [gentoo-user] How to backout devfs?

2003-10-27 Thread Andrew Gaffney
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 11:04:33AM +0100, Frank Schäfer wrote: Hi, this howto is veryveryvery short. 1. don't compile devfs in the kernel 2. don't start devfsd 3. run /sbin/MAKEDEV, to create all the devices you need ... but why the hick do you want to do this? Because

Re: [gentoo-user] How to backout devfs?

2003-10-27 Thread Kathy Wills
gabor wrote: | Because devfs is been removed from future kernels? | and why was it removed? is there a better thing than devfsd? The kernel developers are making plans to change from devfs to udev. Udev is still in the development process. It will work much the same way as devfs. -- Kathy Wills

Re: [gentoo-user] How to backout devfs?

2003-10-27 Thread gabor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 11:04:33AM +0100, Frank Schäfer wrote: | |>Hi, this howto is veryveryvery short. | | |>1. don't compile devfs in the kernel |>2. don't start devfsd |>3. run /sbin/MAKEDEV, to create all the devices you

Re: [gentoo-user] How to backout devfs?

2003-10-27 Thread Philippe Van Hecke
On Monday 27 October 2003 11:04, Frank Schäfer wrote: > ... but why the hick do you want to do this? Some drivers like aacraid doesn't support it well and give some problem at boot time. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How to backout devfs?

2003-10-27 Thread Frank Schäfer
On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 11:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 11:04:33AM +0100, Frank Schäfer wrote: > > Hi, this howto is veryveryvery short. > > > 1. don't compile devfs in the kernel > > 2. don't start devfsd > > 3. run /sbin/MAKEDEV, to create all the devices you need > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] How to backout devfs?

2003-10-27 Thread rk
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 11:04:33AM +0100, Frank Schäfer wrote: > Hi, this howto is veryveryvery short. > 1. don't compile devfs in the kernel > 2. don't start devfsd > 3. run /sbin/MAKEDEV, to create all the devices you need > ... but why the hick do you want to do this? Because devfs is been re

Re: [gentoo-user] How to backout devfs?

2003-10-27 Thread Frank Schäfer
Hi, this howto is veryveryvery short. 1. don't compile devfs in the kernel 2. don't start devfsd 3. run /sbin/MAKEDEV, to create all the devices you need ... but why the hick do you want to do this? Regrads Frank On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 02:59, Jerry McBride wrote: > Has anyone here backed out de

[gentoo-user] How to backout devfs?

2003-10-26 Thread Jerry McBride
Has anyone here backed out devfs successfully? If so, how about a short "how-too"? -- ** Registered Linux User Number 185956 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list