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SubjectRe: DEVFS is very good compared to UDEV
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On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 22:20, Jari Soderholm wrote:
> Why could you develop it so that UDEV could create those
> actual device files there also, then most linux
> users would not need those horrible scipts anymore.
> All that is then needed link from /sysfs to /dev dir.

Well, udev way of doing things is very similar to Solaris. While booting
with -r, or by creating /.reconfigure, Solaris kernel scans the hardware
and creates entries in /devices tree. The /dev entries are just symlinks
to /devices entries.


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