On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Apostolos Syropoulos <asyropou...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> Is there really anything essential that udev provides that OI's devfs >> doesn't provide? > > Strictly speaking udev is a "successor" of devfs. What I actually want to know > is whether there are plans to implement/port udisks:
Strictly speaking, Linux udev is highly specific to Linux and not intended to be adopted elsewhere, and the Linux devfs it replaced has no relation to Solaris devfs. There were bits of DeviceKit that were meant to be portable and used udev as a backend on Linux, but DeviceKit died. -Albert _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
