From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dqx2N-0004tF-QW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2005 17:53:20 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j68Hq8N7025227; Fri, 8 Jul 2005 17:52:08 GMT Received: from basillia.speedxs.net (basillia.speedxs.net [83.98.255.13]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j68HnPfm007785 for ; Fri, 8 Jul 2005 17:49:25 GMT Received: from pcmichiel.lan (debruijne.speedxs.nl [83.98.237.219]) by basillia.speedxs.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1161A7079 for ; Fri, 8 Jul 2005 19:43:42 +0200 (CEST) From: Michiel de Bruijne To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] devfs is dead, let's move on Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 19:49:34 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <20050706224651.GA19853@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20050706224651.GA19853@kroah.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200507081949.34728.m.debruijne@hccnet.nl> X-Archives-Salt: f1e87585-2861-4172-b3ee-178e85d55849 X-Archives-Hash: ad632deed4212252bbf1bbbd361f216e On Thursday 07 July 2005 00:46, Greg KH wrote: > Ok, now that devfs is removed from the 2.6 kernel tree[1], I think it's > time to start to revisit some of the /dev naming rules that we currently > are living with[2]. > > To start with, the 061 version of udev offers a big memory savings if > you use the "default" kernel name of a device[3]. If you do that, it does > not create a file in its database in /dev/.udevdb/ Are there any ebuilds in the tree that are not sysfs/udev-aware? I.o.w. is it still necessary to have RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="yes" as a default or can we move to a pure udev system and change the default to "no". -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list