Re: debian-installer and devfs

[Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>]

David Whedon wrote:
> I've been playing with devfs.  I'm considering it on the install system for the
> following reasons:

I've been leaning toward using it too. Same reasons.

> Does anyone have a feeling for whether or not we should include devfsd? My gut
> feeling is no, as it will cost 20-30k.  I think we can simply create the
> symlinks we need a boot in a smaller script, though the installer will be a bit
> more flexible with devfsd.

I don't know enough about devfsd (even though I run devfs on half my
systems now). If it just does the compatability links, we can do
without. It it also handles hotplugging of usb and so on, we might need
to keep it.

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