From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264284AbTLIJ7Z (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2003 04:59:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264601AbTLIJ7Z (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2003 04:59:25 -0500 Received: from port-212-202-157-212.reverse.qsc.de ([212.202.157.212]:60907 "EHLO bender.portrix.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264284AbTLIJ7R (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2003 04:59:17 -0500 Message-ID: <3FD59CED.6090408@portrix.net> Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 10:59:09 +0100 From: Jan Dittmer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: State of devfs in 2.6? References: <200312081536.26022.andrew@walrond.org> <20031208154256.GV19856@holomorphy.com> <20031208233428.GA31370@kroah.com> <1070953338.7668.6.camel@simulacron> <20031209083228.GC1698@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20031209083228.GC1698@kroah.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.82.4.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Greg KH wrote: | On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 08:02:19AM +0100, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: | |>>Regardless of the state of udev, devfs has insolvable problems and you |>>should not use it. End of story. |> |>how many bug reports did you see in the last three months of people |>having problems with devfs? | | | I don't think that all 4 users of devfs on 2.6 are all that vocal :) | Either way, I haven't been paying attention, as I really don't care. | FWIW, I've been using devfs from the beginning of 2.4 and with 2.5/2.6 with Debian and never had a problem (knock on wood). I really like the way of having device nodes only for present devices. Btw. I still haven't figured out, how to use udev properly. I just get the nodes of devices I plugin after boot and of the modules I load after boot. IDE et all aren't showing up. How early do I need to load udev or has my kernel to be all modular for it to work properly? Thanks, Jan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/1ZztLqMJRclVKIYRAlgWAJ0cFbRv2QbWrQbFNWACwHrp/opQiQCfZJVD UjI7PkOYwt4auQb1qTRtwx8= =40wq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----