On 22 Jun 2001, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
> Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > > the odds are high we won't put devfs in standart before a long time
> > > (at least devfs without devfsd won't appear before very long).
> >
> > Any particular reason why?
>
> devfs is disabled because, for example :
>
> scripts need some alteration (like grep for
> /dev/ide/host0/target0/lun1/p1 instead of /dev/hdb1 in
> /proc/partitions and the like)
>
>
Yes, I know. That was the answer half an year ago, when kernel-2.4.x was
just out. My question really was - is there any work in progress to make
Mandrake tools devfs aware?
> if that is done, and if you use devfsd, then 99% of the packages 'll
> be fine. but you need to test the whole ditro for a complete audit.
>
So what? You have to do it anyway. And you have testers here.
> without devfsd, the amount of work to do is quite large ...
>
>
Why without devfsd? Have I suggested it?
-andrej
