-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 16 November 2003 21:22, Todd Pytel wrote:
> I agree. I only had one or two issues with devfs, and those were really > problems with other applications not being coded to recognize it. I had some problems with devfs in connection with usb devices. Whenever I tried to mount a usb harddisk that wasn't properly supported, the whole system would hang (to a point where you couldn't even ssh into the system, and only a hard reboot would help). From what I understand, if I hadn't run devfs, the mount would just return with an error message. > I gather that there was a lot of infighting about it on LKML, though. > How much was politics and people, and how much was technical I don't > know. Still, I think it could have taken off and been useful with more > cooperation. I think it was both political and technical. Part of it was that devfs seems to have had a lot of duplicate code. And some people didn't like the idea of having a system that was both kernel- and userspace. It seems, though, that devfs hasn't been removed completely. I found this website which explains the new functionality of Linux 2.4.6: http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/post-halloween-2.5.txt It's been deprecated, and probably will be removed by 2.7, but there is a replacement in something called udev. - -- John L. Fjellstad____________________________________________________ web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAj+4jxEACgkQkz0vhQtHHRgL+QCgliAE3HpDQa35wTwCOwSRtYgz ybMAoMPxmByzeCAhvOBcTX/x9TqKLbsH =pnvA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
