Re: Re: 2.6.14 kernel woes
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 12:22:13AM +0000, Jim McCloskey wrote:
> |> >This is not true. I'm happily running 2.6.14.3, on an FC2 box,
> |> >which pre-dates udev. And its no problem at all. Everything Just
> |> >Works (TM).
> |>
> |> One thing you _cannot_ do is run devfs though, it's udev or
> |> statically managed /dev. devfs was removed in 2.6.13 I think.
>
> Yes, sorry, I should have been more accurate. If you want to
> dynamically re-populate the /dev/ directory at boot, then udev is the
> option since 2.6.13. To be more specific, I think that devfs has
> been disabled, even though the code still exists in the kernel tree
> (linux-2.6.14/fs/devfs/).
Anyway, devfs has been marked "OBSOLETE" in the kernel tree since 2.6.0.
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