Has anyone dumped udev for devfs?

[Thomas Cameron]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Howarth" <paul at city-fan.org>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 11:32 AM
Subject: Re: Has anyone dumped udev for devfs?


> Thomas Cameron wrote:
>> I have to agree with Kevin on this.  I am really amazed at the whole udev 
>> debacle.  To me it seems that we are trying to adopt a form of "Plug and 
>> Play" for Linux.  While the concept is cool, I wonder if it is really 
>> necessary.  What I mean is, the old method (tons of files in /dev) Just 
>> Worked(TM).  If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
>>
>> Now having said that, I am not a programmer so I am not sure how much 
>> work it has been to keep all of those special files.
>
> Kevin's problem appears to be with the driver support in the kernel though 
> (it's a USB timeout), rather the presence or absence of a node in the /dev 
> directory. Even with a good old-fashioned /dev full of entries, the USB 
> support would be broken, wouldn't it - see Bug #128602?
>
> Paul.

OK, thanks for the clarification...

TC