On Thursday 28 June 2007, Yan Seiner wrote:
> Mike Frysinger napsal(a):
> > On Thursday 28 June 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >> I'm using BusyBox 1.5.0 and I can't get mdev to work as I would expect.
> >> It's only populating a very small subset of devices in the kernel.
> >
> > you've probably disabled the deprecated sysfs kernel option ... older
> > versions of mdev wont work in that case, you have to enable the kernel
> > option or grab the fix out of current trunk
> > -mike
>
> For those of us who don't do this full time, is there an overview of all
> the udev/mdev/sysfs/foo/bar changes going on?

mdev simply exposes the hotplug capabilities from the kernel ... as for 
mdev.conf, you can read the mdev doc

> I understand the need for a robust and intelligent device management
> system, but it seems that the changes are coming pretty rapidly - as
> soon as we get used to one system, it's deprecated in favor of another.
> (This from a guy who still develops with a 2.4 kernel as a part of his
> job.)  :-)

i dont understand this statement ... mdev hides the user<->kernel interface 
and mdev continues to work the same
-mike

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