[ale] Re: Ale Digest, Vol 2, Issue 58

[Grady Harris]

It's available for Gentoo, as well:
http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=devfs

Started using it when I upgraded my kernel a couple of months ago, & it was
indeed one of those voila! thangs--I worried about it for a lot longer than I
took to set it up.

Grady Harris
Quoting ale-request at ale.org:
> Message: 7
> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 13:19:37 -0400
> From: "Michael D. Hirsch" <mhirsch at nubridges.com>
> Subject: Re: [ale] /dev/ttyUSB0 question
> On Tuesday 20 July 2004 10:30 pm, Geoffrey wrote:
> > James Sumners wrote:
> > >>From my understanding (I have not messed with it yet) udevfs provides an
> > >> easy
> > >
> > > way to do this. Read http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7316 for
> > > a good overview and basic principles.
> >
> > I believe hotplug can be configured to deal with this as well.
>
> I didn't see how to do that with hotplug but without devfs.  I'd love to find
> out as I have that same problem.
>
> I was disappointed to find that Mandrake 10, though it uses a 2.6 kernel,
> does
> not have devfs.  Does anyone know of a distibution that does have devfs?
>
> Michael
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 8
> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 13:37:17 -0400
> From: james at sumners.ath.cx
> Subject: Re: [ale] /dev/ttyUSB0 question
>
> I realized last night that all there is to using udevfs is installing
> udev and hotplug. So, all I did was `apt-get install udev` (already had
> hotplug installed) and rebooted, so that the devfs would be set up
> cleanly. Voila! My system now has a much cleaner /dev directory.
>
>
http://at.rpmfind.net/opsys/linux/RPM/mandrake/10.0/i586/udev-013-4mdk.i586.html