On Mon, 6 May 2002, Collins wrote: > On Tue, 7 May 2002 07:02:21 +1000 Keith Antoine > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 06 May 2002 11:40 pm, Net Llama! uttered words of wisdom: > > > Keith, > > > I have no experience with devfs, so i really can't offer any > > > suggestions. Just wondering why you'r using devfs in the first > > > place, when its really not 'stable' code? > > > I've gotten everything you're struggling with working under the > > > tracditional /dev/ system with mjpegtools, so this is definitely a > > > devfs issue. > > > > Cos' mandrake 8.1 and 8.2 come with that by default. I am waiting > > for the lastest Suse to see what that comes with. > > > > Unstable or not, I've been using it for about two years on gentoo with > no problems other than getting to know a different way of dealing with > device permissions, and some pretty arcane syntax I must admit. If > it's setup properly, all the old names are there, and you shouldn't > need to worry. > > Stable depends on your viewpoint. It works 100% for me, and for the > most part I'm not even aware it's there.
Or Linus's viewpoint, as devfs remains listed as an "EXPERIMENTAL" option in the kernel config. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
