Has anyone dumped udev for devfs?

[Kevin Fries]

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Rahul Sundaram wrote:
| On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 20:24:36 -0700, Kevin Fries <kevin at hcico.com> wrote:
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|>Any ETA on when udev is going to be ready for prime time?
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| it already is. its  the default for many distros including fedora,
| mandrake, gentoo and so on
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|  And, any
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|>clue why Fedora insists on relying on a program that does not f*(&%ing
|>work!!!!
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| it does work. if you have bugs file them. if any program with bugs has
| to be excluded we would be left with nothing to ship. devfs has no
| maintainer  and known bugs and  is scheduled for removing july 2005.

Sorry but it does not work.  I have filed bugs in bugzilla before
(related to the same problem with flash sticks not working), and they
keep trying to consolodate them into the existing bugs.  The developers
know about the problems, and keep trying to close the tickets.  The
problem is that this package just does not work correctly, and I am
thouroughly convinced that the developers are stumpped as to why.

The real bitch in all of this is that I am trying hard to eliminate
Windows in our workplace, and this incident set us way back.  Because
Linux will not talk to a basic scanner, I just got "schooled" on why
Linux is imappropriate for all business use.  Everyone in the forum
knows that this is crap, but we are talking about business not technical
people making the final decision (account not me writes the checks).
This is why beta (and udev is late alpha early beta stage) software
should not be in a stable distro tree!!!!  This is business 101 people.
~ How can we battle the Microsofting of our networks, with all its
security nightmares, if we can not offer an alternative that can talk to
a basic scanner, webcam (for video conferencing), etc?

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| devfs is a bad alternative for above mentioned reasons. file bugs in
| bugzilla.redhat.com against udev
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Further reason this was a bad decision.  Don't make the step forward
until you know the ground can hold your weight, or you just might find
yourself in a freefall.

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Kevin Fries
Network Administrator
Hydrologic Consultants, Inc of Colorado
(303) 969-8033    FAX: (303) 969-8357
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