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["Bearcat M. Sandor" <Sorcerer AT TheDragonsEdge.com>]

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For instance, does UDEV make /etc/modprobe.devfs obsolete?

I assume so. If so, what replaces it, if anything?

Bearcat

On Friday 09 April 2004 13:27 in an email titled "Re: [SM-Discuss] New udev, 
simpleinit-msb, and init.d spells in test" Bas van Gils wrote:
>On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 05:52:13PM -0700, Eric Sandall wrote:
>> Just so you know I tried out converting to udev on /dev with the new
>> spells in test and it went fine (except for my own stupidity in converting
>> the devfs LVM names to dev LVM names /and/ trying out a new kernel at the
>> same time. ;)).
>
>It's good to hear that the new udev works just fine now. Having switched
> from static /dev to devfs a while ago I followed the discussion on udev
> with some interest. I'm not entirely sure why I would want to swtich from
> devfs to udev, though, except for the fact that devfs seems to be obsolete
> in 2.6.x kernels.
>
>So, I was wondering:
>- why would I want to switch?
>- will there be a document similar to "HOWTO-devfsd setup" on our wiki to
>  guide "simple users like me" through the process? For example, I would be
>  interested to know how to convert some of the rules in my devfsd.conf to
>  udev.
>
>
>Thanks for your replies,
>
>    Bas

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