Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From:	Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] re-scanning for devices
Date:	Sun, 26 Feb 2006 06:30:44
Message-Id:	`7573e9640602252225t4004d323m5e56e08340ec69ea@mail.gmail.com`
In Reply to:	Re: [gentoo-user] re-scanning for devices by Nick Smith

1	On 2/25/06, Nick Smith <nick.smith79@×××××.com> wrote:
2	> its actually running a 2.4 kernel on sparc, and i dont think they use
3	> udev, i think they are still on devfs. IIRC. is udev the only way to
4	> accomplish this?
5
6	Well, for hotplug, I'm not sure. It has been too long since I ran a
7	2.4 kernel. There are _massive_ improvements in hotplug support in
8	2.6 over 2.4. For persistent device names, udev is the only way.
9
10	-Richard
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