On 1/31/06, Saurabh Nanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm on Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger) and have custom installed the vanilla > kernel version 2.6.15-1 -- I needed it for the SiS190 NIC driver. > > I couldn't find DEVFS anywhere in the kernel configuration menu. Adding the > following lines to the '.config' file didn't work: > > CONFIG_DEVFS_FS=y > CONFIG_DEVFS_MOUNT=y > > [I had picked up these lines from the config file of the standard Ubuntu > kernel v2.6.12-9] > > Has devfs support been withdrawn from the kernel?
Yes, greg kh (kernel developer) was pretty much against the idea of devfs, so I suppose it has been removed now. udev/sysfs is used instead. > > While booting I get a lot of error messages regarding devfs not being > mounted, but apparently my system is working perfectly. Will I face any > problem without devfs on Ubuntu? > What sort of error messages do you get? Perhaps this should help: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev-FAQ -- Goldwyn :o) _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
