Has anyone dumped udev for devfs?

[Craig White]

On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 16:00 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 08:53 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 15:36 +0100, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> > > On 5 Feb 2005, at 06:02, Kevin Fries wrote:
> > > 
> > > > This morning I had to re-install Windows because udev failed to build
> > > > the /dev link for a USB based scanner.  This has set my transition to
> > > > a Linux network back 2 years.  And I get accused of whinnying.
> > > 
> > > Please, read the following article:
> > > 
> > > http://www.reactivated.net/udevrules.php
> > ----
> > nice link
> 
> But it doesn't address Kevin's problem, which is a USB timeout, not a
> failure to find a node in /dev.
> 
> See:
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-February/msg01289.html
> 
> If the USB driver in the kernel is having problems with the device, it
> can't identify the device and create a node for it. I doubt that the
> situation would be any better with a static /dev entry for it either.
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ahh - that guy and that problem.

His problems (via personal 'un-invited' email to me) seem to be more
like...

- his desire to consider Fedora as 'stable' when it's stated goals are
to be 'testing' distribution

- his mission to offer Fedora as a drop-in, hassle free replacement for
Windows

and of course, as you mention, hardware that doesn't play nicely.

Craig