Re: Is life with 'udev' good?
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:43:31 -0500, Christian Convey wrote:
> Is there a general concensus about whether udev makes life better or worse?
udev is, conceptually, a much better naming scheme than is devfs. This
purported goodness comes at a price: udev is not able to do directly some
of the things that devfs could do. In Linux kernel 2.6, devfs is
deprecated in favor of udev. This indicates some consensus, if only
among kernel developers, that udev makes life better.
In my opinion, udev is The Right Idea. I didn't need it when I first
installed it, but I've since taken the time to get my DVD-ROM drive
working and have purchased a "USB storage device". udev makes it quite
easy to manage names, groups, and permissions for these devices.
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