problems with enabling cdrom drives

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Jerry McBride wrote:
> As for devfs, it's a better way of doing things. I believe more and more
> distributions will be using it in the future. You may as well keep a good thing.
> It comes as part of Gentoo 1.4 and hasn't cause me a single problem, The most
> compelling reason to use it... a much smaller /dev directory.

I was under the impression that Linus was considering removing it
altogether from the kernel, as it has very little support amongst the
kernel mainainers.

> P.S. We're getting ready for another round of layoffs at work. These days it's
> nothing like going to work, it's more like going to the funeral home to view a
> loved one. Sad.

ugh, i know that feeling all too well, almost weekly.

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