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
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