Re: devfs.rules vs. udev.rules

[Jonathan Matthews <nospam@jaycee.uklinux.net>]

csj had the gall to say:
> What's the relationship between /etc/udev/devfs.rules and
> /etc/udev/udev.rules?  With the latest udev upgrade (0.024-6), I
> lost my video for linux devices.  Before the upgrade they were in
> /dev/v4l/*.
> 
> Sure enough I found that the rules for them had disappeared from
> /etc/udev/udev.rules.  They're now in /etc/udev/devfs.rules.  As
> a hack (rather than disabling udev entirely), I copied the
> relevant entries from /etc/udev/devfs.rules to
> /etc/udev/udev.rules.

I've just installed udev, and I found that moving devfs.rules to 
udev.rules (after backing udev.rules up ...) solved the problems I had.  

I think that devfs.rules is a compatability ruleset that creates /dev as 
if devfs were running.  I can't see any harm in this, so I've left my 
box running with these rules active.  I don't know what rules the 
"native" udev.rules file propagates - my advice is not to use them until 
it settles down a bit!

Cheers!
jc

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