This "automatically" is just like all other drivers compiled into the kernel
core.
If you don't want things built into your kernel, a) don't include it or b)
make it modular or c) change your boot option to disable it.
This is a silly argument :)
-d
On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> "H. Peter Anvin" wrote:
> > The second is that devfs seems to think it is above the normal way of
> > doing things (unlike ALL OTHER filesystems, including procfs and
> > shmfs) and not only will mount itself on /dev automatically, but will
> > do so *by default*. This is incredibly antisocial behaviour, and has
> > no justification.
>
> Agreed. This is why I don't build devfs when I build the MandrakeSoft
> "hackkernel" package, containing the latest 2.3.x kernel and all its
> features.
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