Randy McMurchy wrote:
I don't see the payoff in the scheme. I suppose I still look at it that whatever hardware may be installed on the machine should have a device node (if appropriate) created for it at boot time, regardless if there is software that can actually use it.
I more or less agree with Randy here. If it's part of the system, ie, attached to the motherboard either directly or via a not-too-obscure PCI card, a base-LFS system should be able to make a node for it. Especially if you've gone to the trouble to identify that driver in your kernel. You don't want to make that step in LFS and then find out in BLFS that udev, that should automatically create your nodes doesn't because the LFS editors have gone crazy and removed it's ability to do so. ;)
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