On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 03:35:23 +0100 Matthias Langer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> revealed that there are in fact hundrets of premade device nodes in > the /dev directory. And this is not only true for the box where i > discovered this, which was brought up from a 2004.x cd, but also true > for the box where i just installed gentoo from 2005.1-r1. > > Is there any reason for this ? Not all systems use udev or devfs. Plus, it's nice to be able to boot the system when your dynamic /dev management fails for whatever reason. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list