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Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 17:19:34 -0700
From: Collins Richey <crichey@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] new 2004.3 system - to devfs or not to devfs, that is the question
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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.
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Collins
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