From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262303AbTLNSfJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Dec 2003 13:35:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262308AbTLNSfJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Dec 2003 13:35:09 -0500 Received: from wblv-224-192.telkomadsl.co.za ([165.165.224.192]:65417 "EHLO gateway.lan") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262303AbTLNSfD (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Dec 2003 13:35:03 -0500 Subject: Re: udev for dummies From: Martin Schlemmer Reply-To: azarah@nosferatu.za.org To: Greg KH Cc: "J.A. Magallon" , Lista Linux-Kernel In-Reply-To: <20031212213148.GA24643@kroah.com> References: <20031211221604.GA2939@werewolf.able.es> <20031212213148.GA24643@kroah.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-jQyRdoBH20eXxpw56vE3" Message-Id: <1071427017.17146.2.camel@nosferatu.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 20:36:57 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-jQyRdoBH20eXxpw56vE3 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 23:31, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 11:16:04PM +0100, J.A. Magallon wrote: > > Hi all... > >=20 > > I am starting to use 2.6, and I really would like to use udev. > > But I can't find a doc about how to move from taditional heavily > > populated /dev to new method. > >=20 > > Any pointer ? >=20 > Did you read the README in udev's package? >=20 > Anyway, I don't really recommend using udev for management of your /dev > at this moment in time. In order to do this we need some more > intregration of udev into the early boot process. People are working on > this, but it will be a bit of time before it works properly, sorry. >=20 It does work nicely to manage /dev if /dev is well populated as you would have for a non-devfs system (yes, it does sort of defeat the point, but the extra functionality of udev like changing the name of a specific usb device, etc, makes up for the current 'bloat of this approach). --=20 Martin Schlemmer --=-jQyRdoBH20eXxpw56vE3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/3K3JqburzKaJYLYRArygAJ9Erryps8ktgk1Nj1cDYJek05aizQCfS3Ju 4dI4CmqnmORDsLl4sRBICoY= =v95Y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-jQyRdoBH20eXxpw56vE3--