Has anyone dumped udev for devfs?

[Matthew Miller]

On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 01:06:29PM +0100, Thomas Zehetbauer wrote:
> How? The application was designed to open a serial port and wait for the
> PalmOS device to connect. Later it happened to open a serial port that
> is a device on USB. Now udev is expecting it to guess which device it
> will create and wait for it to appear in /dev.

That's the whole huge benefit -- with udev, it doesn't have to guess. With
USB and static device names, it does. The programs just need to not be so
impatient about whether thing thing is actually there yet or not. 

> Then the only sensible way to cope with this is to design a naming
> scheme that fits everything and can be extended. Most of the node names

Ta-da: udev. A new sensible scheme that fits everything, *and* is backwards
compatible.

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