Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 02 Feb 2001 11:35:25 +0100 | From | Helge Hafting <> | Subject | Re: Modules and DevFS |
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"Michael B. Trausch" wrote: [...] > DevFSd provides symlinks as follows: > > /dev/ttyS0 = /dev/tts/0 > /dev/tty0 = /dev/vc/0 > /dev/pty* = /dev/pty/* > > Until programs use the new names (e.g., init should tell getty to use > /dev/vc/0 instead of /dev/tty0), and everything on the system doesn't need > support for the old-style names, you need to use devfsd and > such.
You don't have to wait for every program to use the new names, if devfs is the way you want to go. Do a "rgrep /dev /etc/*" and you'll find that many device-using programs have their device names stored in configuration files. Fixing these files is simple, just replace /dev/device with whatever the symlink points to. [This leaves a few files like /etc/securetty that use relative pathnames. These are of course fixable too, they just don't have the /dev to search for.]
This lets you get rid of a lot of symlinks. I still need symlinks for /dev/tty* (hardcoded in X), isdn stuff and sound stuff. Everything else is gone from dev, sitting comfortably in subdirectories only. Getting rid of all "possible" disks helped in particular, "ls /dev" fits in a standard 80x25 screen now. :-)
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