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Re: hotplug, udev and usbkey question



Rick Macdonald <rickm@timshel.ca> writes:

>> Are you sure?  Udev is not supported on 2.4 (udev needs sysfs which
>> didn't appear until the 2.6 series).
>
> Does udev (or any other part of this USB issue) need tmpfs? I saw this
> mentioned in one place but most don't mentioned it. I'm running 2.6.9.

It doesn't have to, but it's a nice thing to have.  Basically, using
tmpfs, you don't have to clean up /dev whenever you shutdown the system,
since it's just a tmpfs

-- 
John L. Fjellstad
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