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Matthew Miller wrote:
|On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 01:20:45AM -0700, Kevin Fries wrote: | |>Now back to my original question, has anyone else chucked this thing |>in the trash where it belongs and gone back to devfs, and what |>problems or issues need to be watched out for. | | |I'm not sure what you mean exactly by "back to devfs", because Fedora Core |and before that Red Hat Linux never used devfs, and to my knowledge, devfs |never was working perfectly (and was always marked as "experimental"). | |udev/hotplug may have some growing pains. However, by switching to devfs, |you'd be moving away from something that's at under very active development |to obsolete, unmaintained code due to be completely removed from the kernel. |That's the main thing I'd suggest watching out for. :)
This morning I had to re-install Windows because udev failed to build the /dev link for a USB based scanner. This has set my transition to a Linux network back 2 years. And I get accused of whinnying.
I want whatever was working before it uninstalled and upgraded with udev. I was under the impression that it was devfs, but I am wondering if it was static dev. Whatever it is, udev failed not on something complex that can be explained away, but on a basic USB scanner. Using Beta (closer to alpha if you ask me) software in a stable distribution is setting the Linux movement back, not forward.
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