The problem with this is udev doesnt know about a lot of devices. I cant see the sense of trying to replace a simple makdev when needed while having a large directory of nodes (that dont take up any space) versus using often flaky, complex and problematic utilities like devfs and udev where you have to do a fair bit of reading, ask on mail lists and sacrifice chickens to get your new bluetooth dongle working!
Wheres the gain? - I certainly have had my share of pain (bluetooth, cdroms, dvd's, ...) with both udev and devfs - devfs does seem less problematic but I guess thats because its older. Overall, I find myself wishing for the old system ... BillK On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 04:07 +0200, Sven Köhler wrote: > Hi, > > i liked the idea of having very few devices in /dev. Since i installed > udev, i got plenty of them. AFAIK, the deives are saved on shutdown and > restored on boot. How can start my gentoo with an empty /dev directory > which is re-populated by udev? > > Thx > Sven -- William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
