On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 09:57, Daniel Armyr wrote:
> >What are your opinions on this?
> 
> Please ensure that there is a proper upgrade guide at the time when
> support for devfs is discontinued completely. I assume the upgrade is
> non-trivial to do on an existing system.

There are no intentions of removing devfs support currently, as it is
required for 2.4 kernels (under Gentoo) since they do not use udev.

As for the "upgrade" it is quite simple.

emerge udev

...and that's really it.  You can test it on a currently-running 2.6
kernel that uses devfs by using devfs=nomount on the kernel command
line.  This will cause your system to boot up using udev.  If you like
udev, you can remove devfs support from your kernel.  There's no kernel
support needed for udev other than hotplug support.

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