Ok, thanks a lot, that really helped. But now the question is: do i get udev wortking by just emergeing it, unmerging devfs and rebooting the computer?
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 14:29:41 +0100 Arne Vogel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jakub Krajcovic wrote: > > >Hi guys, > > > >i am still using devsf no 2.6.2 vanilla, but the other day i emerge > >udev, in order to give it a try, and this is what happened: > > > >after emerging i restarted my computer, but it refused to boot... > >the kernel boot was ok, the default init was also ok, but when it > >came to autoloading modules, the computer just froze and it stayed > >frozen for quite a long time until i did a hard reset. > >I then booted into 2.4.22-gentoo-r5 and everything was a-ok, since > >there is no sysfs - udev support in 2.4 kernels. > > > >Then i deleted all of the modules that i was loading at startup, > >booted into 2.6.2 again - and it froze again. > > > >Then in unmerged udev in 2.4 and rebooted into 2.6 again and > >everything was ok again. > > > > > > > I also did an emerge udev yesterday, and found out the hard way that > this not only installs > the daemon on the hard drive, but also disables devfs and activates > udev. I unemerged the bastard > and switched back to devfs. The only problems I had though were > missing devices in /dev. > > >So the question is: is there some conflict between devfs and udev? > >Can they not co-exist together? Or, if this is not the case, does > >anyone have an idea as to what might be causing this? > > > > > No. Devfs and udev are incompatible and cannot be used at the same > time. > > >And another question: is udev "100 %" able to replace devfs in terms > >of application compatibility? To be specific - most of the usb stuff > >i use relies on devfs entries - will this be ok with sysfs / udev? > > > > > I'm not quite sure what you mean with that. Devfs and udev don't > actually interact with the hardware, > they just make the hardware devices (kernel major/minor) visible in > the file system as /dev nodes. > In principle, udev should be better for hotplugged devices, e.g. usb, > since it can be made to "remember" > a device by its serial number, and create a specific /dev node for it, > whereas devfs would just count > node numbers up in the order in which the devices were plugged in rsp. > turned on. > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- GPG public keys available at pgp.mit.edu
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