Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 08 Dec 2003 14:09:47 -0500 | From | Bob <> | Subject | udev sysfs docs Re: State of devfs in 2.6? |
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William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 03:36:26PM +0000, Andrew Walrond wrote: > > >>Whats the general feeling about devfs now? I remember Christoph and others >>making some nasty remarks about it 6months ago or so, but later noted >>christoph doing some slashing and burning thereof. >>Is it 'nice' yet? >>Andrew Walrond >> >> > >I would say it's deprecated at the very least. sysfs and udev are >supposed to provide equivalent functionality, albeit by a somewhat >different mechanism. > > >-- wli > Where can we find documentation on sysfs and udev, and on transition issues? I know devfs hasn't been maintained for a long time but the documentation for it comes with kernel source and there it is in menuconfig. Every time I hear that udev and sysfs replace devfs I wonder where to pick up the thread, where is that doc, where is the menuconfig option ;-) I guess there is a website but to bring people out of devfs with their /etc/devfs/compat_symlinks necessary to boot so they will have to manually make edits, it would be necessary to research the manual edits it takes to boot (md0 vs. md/0, tty vs. vc, etc., /etc/inittab, maybe etc pam or security ).
If transitioning from devfs to udev sysfs comes down to one mistake so I can't boot and have to lilo append="rw init=/bin/bash" and edit /etc/innitab then I need the doc on boot partition to make the last edits to transition completely and save myself (not docs on a website). Shouldn't udev sysfs doc come with kernel source(maybe it does!?)?
-Bob
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