No more MAKEDEV?

[Karel Zak]

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 10:56:45PM -0400, David A. Wheeler wrote:
> > On Thursday 18 September 2008 07:41:12 pm Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > > there's an already-upstream solution
> > > of putting device nodes in /lib/udev/devices. Why not just use this,
> > > remove MAKEDEV, simplify start_udev, and boot faster?
> 
> Please don't _remove_ MAKEDEV.
> I believe the FHS requires the existence of MAKEDEV, anyway; see:
>  http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#DEVDEVICEFILES
> There are a lot of reasons to manually create a device in /dev.

 +1

    karel

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 Karel Zak  <kzak at redhat.com>