Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: udev for dummies | From | Martin Schlemmer <> | Date | Sun, 14 Dec 2003 20:36:57 +0200 |
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On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 23:31, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 11:16:04PM +0100, J.A. Magallon wrote: > > Hi all... > > > > I am starting to use 2.6, and I really would like to use udev. > > But I can't find a doc about how to move from taditional heavily > > populated /dev to new method. > > > > Any pointer ? > > Did you read the README in udev's package? > > Anyway, I don't really recommend using udev for management of your /dev > at this moment in time. In order to do this we need some more > intregration of udev into the early boot process. People are working on > this, but it will be a bit of time before it works properly, sorry. >
It does work nicely to manage /dev if /dev is well populated as you would have for a non-devfs system (yes, it does sort of defeat the point, but the extra functionality of udev like changing the name of a specific usb device, etc, makes up for the current 'bloat of this approach).
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