Re: debian-installer and devfs

[Glenn McGrath <bug1@optushome.com.au>]

Joey Hess wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

I think devfs without devfsd is preferable, i thought devfsd was
supposed to be a transitional thing for use to catch situations where
devfs didnt handle devices that it should, and that as devfs matures it
will be needed less and less.

We could have support for traditional devices as an alternative to
devfs, it would probably only require a seperate rootskel package.

Wether to use rootskel or rootskel-devfs udeb could be determined at
build time by parsing the config file of the kernel that is going to be
used.


Glenn