Has anyone dumped udev for devfs?
Thomas Cameron
thomas.cameron at camerontech.com
Sat Feb 5 17:58:48 UTC 2005
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Wilkinson" <james at westexe.demon.co.uk>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 6:30 PM
Subject: Re: Has anyone dumped udev for devfs?
> Thomas Cameron wrote:
>> No, *you* are not getting the point. The old devfs Just Worked(TM) for
>> the
>> vast majority of us.
>
> Hmm. Neither Fedora nor Red Hat ever enabled devfs by default. Who is
> "the vast majority of us"?
I misspoke. I was thinking "legacy /dev setup" but typed devfs instead.
Sorry.
>> There are *lots* of people on this list who are
>> reporting problems with udev. I am not one so I can't say what is
>> broken.
>> But I see that for many, many users udev is problematic. I am not saying
>> udev is bad. I imagine that once it gets the bugs worked out, it will
>> probably be pretty cool. I am just not sure I understand why the old
>> devfs
>> was bad and udev was created. Again, to make perfectly clear: I don't
>> think udev is bad, I just don't know why we needed it when devfs seemed
>> to
>> work fine.
< truly excellent explanation snipped >
> It's not that a static /dev was bad. It's just that the kernel
> developers think that they can do better.
Thank you, James - that is exactly what I was asking for. You've made it
very clear.
Thomas
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