On Sep 11, 2005, at 07:44:35, [email protected] wrote:
I'll bite - what distros are shipping a kernel 2.6.10 or later and
still
using devfs?
Debian. The current Debian installer is unfortunately rather tightly
coupled to devfs; the reasons for choosing it are rooted in boot
floppy
size, but the development ("unstable") install image uses 2.6.12 +
devfs.
I just had to do a little dance to install it on a machine where
2.6.12 didn't recognize the SATA controller but 2.6.13 counldn't
run the installer.
Note that Debian doesn't need devfs in normal operation; it's just
a bootstrapping tool.
That sounds like _exactly_ the case where the Debian folks could
maintain
the out-of-tree ndevfs patch for a while until they got their installer
floppies and such migrated to udev.
Cheers,
Kyle Moffett
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