From: Jon Portnoy <avenj@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] udev implementation
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 03:49:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031021074908.GA17002@cerberus.oppresses.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031021074313.GB16951@netswarm.net>
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 09:43:13AM +0200, Christian Birchinger wrote:
> You're totaly right. udev is really not usable yet. I was happy
> when i first saw the planed features. But once i got the
> FAQ/Docs i was really disapointed. And this disapointment
> increased after i downloaded the tarball.
>
> I highly suggest not moving to udev yet. Even if devfs is marked
> obsolete in kernel it's far better than udev which is in alpha
> state. Ofcourse one day we will ne forced to adopt udev so it's
> not a bad idea to check it out etc. but please don't switch to
> it now. It's really not ready and causes far more problems than
> devfs.
>
As far as I know, there are currently no plans to move to udev as
default for a while.
We do, however, have to have support for it, especially for archs like
AMD64 - 2.4.23-pre* removes devfs for AMD64 due to bugs.
I, personally, think udev sucks and will really miss devfs.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-21 7:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-21 5:56 [gentoo-dev] udev implementation C. Brewer
2003-10-21 6:17 ` Jon Portnoy
2003-10-21 15:14 ` C. Brewer
2003-10-21 17:09 ` Jon Portnoy
2003-10-21 7:43 ` Christian Birchinger
2003-10-21 7:49 ` Jon Portnoy [this message]
2003-10-21 8:01 ` Ernst Herzberg
2003-10-21 20:36 ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-10-21 21:45 ` C. Brewer
2003-10-22 2:33 ` Mike Frysinger
2003-10-22 2:50 ` C. Brewer
2003-10-22 4:27 ` Martin Schlemmer
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