On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 21:34:15 +0200
Morten Nilsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Olaf Rempel wrote:
> > I've just uploaded a "udev" contrib package. 
> 
> reading that email, it sounds to me exactly like devfs .. I tried it out 
> once, and it was quite satisfactory, but it has since been deprecated 
> from the kernel..
Right. devfs was disabled & ripped out of the kernel some months ago.
udev is (from user pov) it's successor.

The main difference between devfs and udev is, that the former worked from
kernel, where the later runs in userspace and parse sysfs to get it's
informations.

more info:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev-FAQ
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev_vs_devfs


Olaf
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