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From: Collins Richey <crichey@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] new 2004.3 system - to devfs or not to devfs, that is the question
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 17:19:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e00942e40412041619676f9397@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200412041205.24140.mcbrides9@comcast.net>

On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 12:05:23 -0500, Jerry McBride <mcbrides9@comcast.net> wrote:
> >What should I do?
> >
> 
> One of the first things I do, after installing Gentoo, is dumpboth devfs and
> udev. After running MAKEDEV, there's no more problems working with devices...
> 

True enough for now, but eventually the kernel developers will force
you to udev, so my very humble opinion is, get used to udev. I did
that a year ago, solved a few wrinkles, and now the system just hums.
udev also has some nice features for assigning fixed /dev/names for
devices regardless of the order of discovery.

-- 
 Collins

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       reply	other threads:[~2004-12-05  0:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20041203115935.AFE1.NICK@rout.co.nz>
     [not found] ` <41AFAB1C.4020402@pnpitalia.it>
     [not found]   ` <20041203124225.AFE8.NICK@rout.co.nz>
     [not found]     ` <200412041205.24140.mcbrides9@comcast.net>
2004-12-05  0:19       ` Collins Richey [this message]
2004-12-05  1:27         ` [gentoo-user] new 2004.3 system - to devfs or not to devfs, that is the question Jerry McBride
2004-12-05  5:33           ` Collins Richey
2004-12-06  1:36             ` Nick Rout
2004-12-06  8:55               ` Neil Bothwick

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