On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 08:45:52 +0100 Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 02:41:31 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > /dev is a managed filesystem. You shouldn't be tinkering with it | > manually. | | You shouldn't need to tinker with it manually, but sometimes you need | to as not everything is supported yet. Until recently, the only way | to get IEEE1394 working was to mknod the devices in local.start.
No, the correct thing to do is to add sysfs support to the devices in question. It's probably the easiest form of kernel hacking there is. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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