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maillog: 21/07/2004-06:34:21(-0400): Travis Tilley types |
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> bah, i've been suckered into installing udev... so i might as well keep it |
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> until something breaks. i disabled the tarball hack since it was making /dev |
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> ugly and cluttered... though i admit it seems to be more ready than i thought |
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> it was. at least for now i can have both and always make devfs mount on |
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> boot... please dont think seriously about removing support for that. at least |
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> not until after we all move over to 2.10 anyways. :/ |
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I, too, was reluctant to try udev, until I tried it and figured that it is |
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good. Most, but a few drivers work with it, and it is only a matter of creating |
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entries for the few devices that are not supported. |
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Plus, if you want to automate the process, you can put the devices in the |
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tarball and "chattr +i" it, so it doesn't get overwritten. Only problem is, I |
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use reisefs. |
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I, too, think that the tarball hack is ugly and makes /dev cluttered. However, |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57110 solves this problem. I now use the |
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tarball, and it doesn't clutter my /dev. Take a look at the bug, and if you |
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like it, post a comment on the bug. I guess this will increase its chances of |
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getting some attention. As I thought, I am not the only who had a low opinion |
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of the tarball hack, so more people are likely to benefit from that fix. |
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