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Re: use udev



On 24. March 2004 at 12:48PM -0500,
"Derrick 'dman' Hudson" <dman@dman13.dyndns.org> wrote:

[...]

> So, to summarize :
>     . udev is dynamaic management of /dev along the lines of devfs
>     . udev is purely userspace (no kernel module or driver)
>         . therefore the naming scheme is defined purely in userspace,
>           not in the kernel

[...]

Would installing udev have any (harmful) effect on a 2.4 system,
or would is just be ignored?  I'm "trialing" 2.6 on a regular 2.4
system (lots of unresolved hardware issues yet on 2.6 like poor
tv and no lirc support).



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