On Aug 22, 2006, at 10:34 AM, Dexter Filmore wrote:
Well. Out of curiosity I compiled 2.6.17.9 and didn't bother installing udevat all.I'm typing this right now with this kernel. Modules built alright, hardware isall there, even the USB DVB-T module works... I seriously can't see anything that doesn't work. Am I missing something?
I don't believe you're missing anything.Really, my understanding is that udev is a userspace daemon for managing what "exists" in /dev, based on what's reported by the kernel under /sys. I don't know for sure if udev creates symlinks, or if it creates actual device nodes in /dev, but I think it's device nodes.
Which means if you have no udev running, but you already have a /dev full of device nodes, then it's all okay.
The udev daemon basically makes it so that you can have /dev as sparse as possible and only have device nodes created for things that are actually present on your computer.
It is not critical that udev is present and running, merely that /dev has the right stuff in it.
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