> I thought devfs was going to be mostly removed from the installations. > > This is based on a comment I received once long ago from a Debian > posting that devfs as a whole wasn't working out all that well and has > been removed from the 2.6 kernel. Yes. devfs has been declared obsolete. It will be replaced by hotplug on the kernel side, plus udev on the user side. See http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev-FAQ.