Mark Knecht wrote: > My question is how do the devices get created if TARBALL="no"? Is it > only the 50-udev.rules file that's responsible?
The whole tarball thing is strongly against the ideas behind udev. udev reads information about your hardware from /sys (and listens for and creates nodes based on that. If you don't rely on the tarball stuff, it's perfectly safe to do: # rm -rf /dev/* # ls /dev # almost empty # udevstart # ls /dev # everything is back > I'm trying to debug > why none of my machines have the lirc/lirc0 devices like the Gentoo > Wiki's say they should. You need to load the lirc module first. But there is always the possibility that the lirc module is not sysfs-aware, in which case it won't put anything in /sys, so udev won't know anything about it. Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
