Has anyone dumped udev for devfs?
Kevin Fries
kevin at hcico.com
Sat Feb 5 05:02:16 UTC 2005
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Matthew Miller wrote:
|On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 01:20:45AM -0700, Kevin Fries wrote:
|
|>Now back to my original question, has anyone else chucked this thing
|>in the trash where it belongs and gone back to devfs, and what
|>problems or issues need to be watched out for.
|
|
|I'm not sure what you mean exactly by "back to devfs", because Fedora
Core
|and before that Red Hat Linux never used devfs, and to my knowledge,
devfs
|never was working perfectly (and was always marked as "experimental").
|
|udev/hotplug may have some growing pains. However, by switching to devfs,
|you'd be moving away from something that's at under very active
development
|to obsolete, unmaintained code due to be completely removed from the
kernel.
|That's the main thing I'd suggest watching out for. :)
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.
I want whatever was working before it uninstalled and upgraded with
udev. I was under the impression that it was devfs, but I am
wondering if it was static dev. Whatever it is, udev failed not on
something complex that can be explained away, but on a basic USB
scanner. Using Beta (closer to alpha if you ask me) software in a
stable distribution is setting the Linux movement back, not forward.
Kevin Fries
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