Re: using devfs on 2.4

From: Hugo Mills (hugo-lkml@carfax.org.uk)
Date: Mon Apr 14 2003 - 10:24:35 EST

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On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 04:57:26PM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:
> Is it save and well supported to run devfs on 2.4.21-preX ?

I think asking if devfs is safe round here is probably a bad
idea. You might get an answer. At length. :)

However, it works for me (2.4.21-pre5-ac3), and has worked for many
previous versions of 2.4.

> Do all drivers support devfs?

I've not met one which doesn't, but then I don't have lots of
hardware to test on.

> Or should I wait for 2.6?

The udev stuff in 2.6 looks like it might become very nice indeed,
but you don't have to wait for that to use devfs.

Hugo.

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