On Dec 29, Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> wrote: > > Because /eventually/ it will not be needed anymore (at least by most > > users, which then will be able to remove it from their systems). > Is there something to replace it, completely, in *all* situations? udev, at least for the general case of users using devices in /dev, fully replaces MAKEDEV. The only exceptions I can think about are broken drivers which have not been ported to the device model (but I could not name any) and people who create device nodes out of /dev for weird reasons (usually because they need multiple copies of the same device with different owners). -- ciao, Marco
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