I've decided to make the move and try devfs on for size. The system is a Debian sid.
I've managed to pass most of the obvious hurdles. The system boots, opens the consoles, starts X and the mouse (mice, in my case) work.
However, many of the devices on my system were set to be autoloaded when needed. I'm using debian's wonderful /etc/modutils/ directory to set up aliases so that when a device is first accessed, the corresponding kernel module will be loaded. I do not see how to translate this idea into devfs, however.
It appears that with devfs, the device won't be there to be opened until the module is loaded, and therefor simply accessing, for example, /dev/cdrom/cdrom1 will result in "file not found", rather than trying to open the device, and thus triggering loading of ide-scsi.
Anyone has a solution for me?
Shachar
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