Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Dec 2001 11:46:29 +0100 (CET) | From | Roman Zippel <> | Subject | Re: devfs unable to handle permission: 2.4.17-pre[4,5] /ALSA-0.9.0beta[9,10] |
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Hi,
On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Borsenkow Andrej wrote:
> > Which is still included in the kernel tree and at least Mandrake is > > currently using it. > > Which resulted in weird problems like floating device numbers, broken > links in /dev/cdroms, mysteriously disappearing sound nodes ...
I can imagine it's not without problems, but...
> I very much appreciate this decision. Copying over device nodes is evil. > It should be stopped by all means (as long as devfs is going to be > used).
it should not suddenly break for anyone still using it, warning messages are fine.
bye, Roman
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