Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] delete devfs | From | Martin Schlemmer <> | Date | Thu, 22 Jul 2004 21:44:59 +0200 |
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On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 00:20, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Matthew Garrett wrote: > > The new Debian installer requires devfs on several architectures, even > > for 2.6 installs. That's unlikely to get changed before release. > > The Debian installer did not have a choice: until very recently udev was > not quite up to the task and having all devices on a filesystem simply > takes too much space. So for the next Debian release the installer will > have to rely on devfs. But since it is based on 2.4 kernels anyway that > isn't a problem. >
IMHO, udev was realy since beginning March already - prob earlier. Sure, some device drivers did not support it (and some still do not), but there are others ways to get past that ...
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