On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:54:49 +0200 Olaf Rempel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. The lastest versions of udev even replace hotplug completely, but this versions require at least kernel >= 2.6.15 IIRC Gerald _______________________________________________ tsl-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.trustix.org/mailman/listinfo/tsl-discuss
