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Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@gmail.com> skribis:
> On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Frank Peters <frank.peters@comcast.net> wrote:
> > Manually creating a /dev tree that perfectly reflects ones own system
> > is rather trivial.  That's how Linux used to be and that's how Linux,
> > for the most part, still is.  There is, or at least should be, no need
> > for udev or any substitute for udev.
> 
> If you want to create a /dev tree for a computer that never gets new
> hardware connected via USB, bluetooth, or another bus, yeah, it's
> pretty trivial.

What’s hard? You create nodes for those devices. If you have a lot of
devices, you create more nodes. With a script, you can create enough
nodes to wrap the earth a few times over. All udev does is create and
destroy nodes according to an unfathomable set of rules that changes
all the time.