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  • From: "Bearcat M. Sandor" <Sorcerer AT TheDragonsEdge.com>
  • To: Bas van Gils <bas.vangils AT cs.kun.nl>, SMGL-Discuss List <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] New udev, simpleinit-msb, and init.d spells in test
  • Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 15:07:10 -0600

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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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