Re: State of devfs in 2.6?

From: Andrew Walrond
Date: Mon Dec 08 2003 - 11:05:00 EST


On Monday 08 Dec 2003 3:42 pm, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>
> I would say it's deprecated at the very least. sysfs and udev are
> supposed to provide equivalent functionality, albeit by a somewhat
> different mechanism.
>

Thanks for the pointer.

So how good is the device coverage offered by sysfs/udev ? Do they provide a
viable/complete MAKEDEV replacement yet?

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