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Thus spake Donnie Berkholz on Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 11:52:09PM CDT |
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> On Sat, 2004-10-16 at 22:33 -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote: |
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> > Thus spake Donnie Berkholz on Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 10:27:27PM CDT |
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> > > On Sat, 2004-10-16 at 22:23 -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote: |
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> > > > Should I file this as a bug, or are there things I should try to rebuild or |
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> > > > reconfigure before declaring it Gentoo's problem and not mine? |
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> > > Have you considered trying udev? I know this isn't a real "solution," |
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> > > but upstream folks aren't interested in devfs bugs at this point. |
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> > I looked at udev, but note that there are an awful lot of software packages |
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> > out there that still look at the devfs filesystem, |
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> Uhm, they both manage /dev in different ways. There is no such thing as |
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> the devfs filesystem. |
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"/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target2/lun0/generic" is a devfs-ism. My |
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understanding is udev doesn't subdivide the /dev heirarchy in this fashion, |
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although I'm sure it could be made to do so. That's the kind of thing I've |
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seen references to. |
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