Mark Knecht wrote:
> Are there any instructions about on how to take an older machine (18
> months) and switch it to udev from devfs? I see that udev is in
> portage so I can emerge that, but how do I tell the machine which to
> use? Is it automatic upon reboot?
> 
> The machine has been updated to a new gentoo-sources. (2.6.11-gentoo-r9)

Tell it to use udev by adding "gentoo=nodevfs" to your kernel-commandline.

Other way: Remove support for "/dev filesystem" (DEVFS) from your kernel.

HTH, regards
Felix

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