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On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 09:57, Daniel Armyr wrote: |
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> >What are your opinions on this? |
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> Please ensure that there is a proper upgrade guide at the time when |
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> support for devfs is discontinued completely. I assume the upgrade is |
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> non-trivial to do on an existing system. |
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There are no intentions of removing devfs support currently, as it is |
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required for 2.4 kernels (under Gentoo) since they do not use udev. |
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As for the "upgrade" it is quite simple. |
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emerge udev |
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...and that's really it. You can test it on a currently-running 2.6 |
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kernel that uses devfs by using devfs=nomount on the kernel command |
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line. This will cause your system to boot up using udev. If you like |
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udev, you can remove devfs support from your kernel. There's no kernel |
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support needed for udev other than hotplug support. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Operations/QA Manager |
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