Re: [gentoo-dev] devfs is dead, let's move on

[Michiel de Bruijne]

On Thursday 07 July 2005 00:46, Greg KH wrote:
> Ok, now that devfs is removed from the 2.6 kernel tree[1], I think it's
> time to start to revisit some of the /dev naming rules that we currently
> are living with[2].
>
> To start with, the 061 version of udev offers a big memory savings if
> you use the "default" kernel name of a device[3].  If you do that, it does
> not create a file in its database in /dev/.udevdb/

Are there any ebuilds in the tree that are not sysfs/udev-aware? I.o.w. is it 
still necessary to have RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="yes" as a default or can we move 
to a pure udev system and change the default to "no".
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