Fw: Followup on devfsd

[Collins Richey]

Here's a cross posting with useful information about devfs which may
not be quite so deprecated after all. 

Begin forwarded message:

Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 10:00:02 -0800
From: Alan <alan at ufies.org>
To: gentoo-user at lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] udev and devfsd


On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 05:14:51PM +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 11:54:10 -0500 (EST) Ajai Khattri <ajai at bway.net>
> wrote:
> | Pros and cons of udev over devfsd ?
> 
> Devfsd is unmaintained, buggy and has a whole stack of nasty race
> conditions, whereas udev is clean and actively developed. Oh yeah, and
> udev will work with 2.7 series kernels when they start, whereas devfsd
> won't :)

Based on this article[0] in the latest LJ, devfs is still alive and
kicking and is not going to die away...

   "Ian Kent has (for the moment at least) accepted the role of DevFS
   maintainer. This is a sharp reversal of the previous trend, which was
  to let DevFS die a quiet death and replace it with a similar feature,
  such as udev. In fact, Greg Kroah-Hartman has been making regular 
  udev releases, with an eye toward exactly this possibility. However, 
  in spite of DevFS' flaws, including some that are apparently so severe
  as to be virtually unfixable, DevFS still provides features that no 
  other system has yet been able to surpass. Folks like Ian have begun 
  to advocate keeping DevFS in the kernel and fixing whatever 
  problems it may have, however difficult they may turn out to be."


[0] http://linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7340

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Collins Richey - Denver area
gentoo testing 2.6.3-rc2 nptl udev