problems with enabling cdrom drives

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 22 Apr 2003, Joel Hammer wrote:
> Welcome to the club of People Whose Lives Have Not Been
> Improved by Devfs. The real question I hope somebody answers is, can we just
> remove devfs support from the kernel and run our machines the old fashioned
> way?

I'm by no means a devfs expert (i prefer not to use it), but i think you
can safely turn it off in the kernel, but you'd have to manually create
all the needed entries under /dev to replace the dynamic ones that devfs
creates.

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