On 2012-01-05 08:43, Alan McKinnon wrote: > I fiddle around a lot with the hardware on those and udev deals with > that nicely considering udev is designed to deal with that nicely.
I confess to being quite ignorant when it comes to what magic udev does behind the scenes but what makes it different to any other device manager (well, I don't know any other than mdev but...)? I.e. what technical problem(s) does udev solve that no other device manager can't? What is the technical need for something else than a device file under /dev that can be used to communicate with the kernel? What I mean is: If you say "... considering udev is designed to deal with that..." you seem to indicate that you know what it does and why it does what it does... and henceforth the technical reason why the rearrangements of the file system hierarchy is necessary... > Becoming rather lazy in my old age is getting to be a factor too Ho hum... so "you lazy old fart" is true then? ;-) Best regards Peter K
