* Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021209 11:07]: > It would be the best practice for us. Some strange multi-serial-port card is > generally not essential for the installation, but missing some important > device node of a harddisk is. Look at the current situation with /dev/i2o/hdX > devices, we forgot to include that in Woodys B-Fs. Same may happen with Sarge.
This design decision could exclude the segment between desktops and embedded things, where the only ways out are are serial-cards (and maybe some other things, for which getting a initial console would be even harder). I'm not saying devfs should not used at all. But the system should support using kernels without devfs, too. But I have to admit, that I should not critice but get my cvs checkout to the latest version and look what can be done... Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either. (Benjamin Franklin) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]