From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27091 invoked from network); 5 Dec 2004 00:19:51 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 5 Dec 2004 00:19:51 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1Cak7z-00003J-AG for arch-gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 05 Dec 2004 00:19:51 +0000 Received: (qmail 30327 invoked by uid 89); 5 Dec 2004 00:19:35 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-user-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 1288 invoked from network); 5 Dec 2004 00:19:35 +0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=EuBHiT73h3QUQwUKfZZs8CUzRZpu3qqw3QxNhZhuPbfFb3x8NnPqlsvKVO3e/oJ3pCCnZt2UcJBAY0feg81N0bzN4IxxatURf5pQOYcdLr2wHHi0yW04rRZIVHDh4bN7nqQsE5Q9LgGv/uD2diTzQ5klTpLBYYP9iUIA6x1Hh8w= Message-ID: Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 17:19:34 -0700 From: Collins Richey Reply-To: Collins Richey To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200412041205.24140.mcbrides9@comcast.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20041203115935.AFE1.NICK@rout.co.nz> <41AFAB1C.4020402@pnpitalia.it> <20041203124225.AFE8.NICK@rout.co.nz> <200412041205.24140.mcbrides9@comcast.net> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] new 2004.3 system - to devfs or not to devfs, that is the question X-Archives-Salt: 3d1b5325-3664-4501-849a-3ef0d6115cf8 X-Archives-Hash: e4180505624c2e8e04bedaf9ffa23031 On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 12:05:23 -0500, Jerry McBride 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list