From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265270AbTLaW1o (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Dec 2003 17:27:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265273AbTLaW1o (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Dec 2003 17:27:44 -0500 Received: from smtp-send.myrealbox.com ([192.108.102.143]:57124 "EHLO smtp-send.myrealbox.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265270AbTLaW1m (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Dec 2003 17:27:42 -0500 Message-ID: <3FF34B09.9040302@myrealbox.com> Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 14:17:45 -0800 From: walt Organization: none User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20031231 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: udev and devfs - The final word References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Greg KH wrote: > In fact, now that I know Gentoo works without devfs, I'm considering > putting it on an old laptop I have around here... That would be ideal. I'm sure you will like the 'portage' system as much as we (the gentoo hordes) do. Note that the portage system already includes 'hotplug' and 'udev' but possibly lagging behind a bit: hotplug-20030805-r3 and udev-011. I have installed them both but just have not been able to get udev working yet -- I don't yet understand the problems well enough to tell you why, unfortutately. (udev is still marked 'experimental' so I'm probably omitting important steps somewhere.) If you could get udev working in gentoo you would become an instant hero rather than the target of nasty emails. Think of how great that would be for your New Year! We would become the wind beneath your wings instead of the rotten tomatoes in your mailbox ;0)