[Discuss] devfs in kernel source tree - 2.6.15

[Justin Rebelo]

Correct. udev is the thing to use now and devfs was removed from the 
kernel config quite a long time ago (probably about 2 years ago they 
started phasing it out and by last year it was gone). I seem to recall 
reading an article on kerneltrap.org a few years ago which described how 
a very small devfs implementation still existed in the kernel for those 
people who were _extremely_ determined to resist udev. That's probably 
the thing you're describing and, as I recall, you have to enable it 
manually, it won't show up in the menuconfigs.

Justin


Andrew Resch wrote:
> As far as I understand it, devfs has been deprecated in favour of udev.
> I am not sure which kernel version this happened with, but perhaps this
> is why it is no longer showing in the menu config.
> 
> Cheers,
> Andrew
> 
> On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 15:41 -0700, Jeff East wrote:
>> I've been using a Backports download of 2.6.15 for a while.  I was just
>> about to try devfs.  I have an odd problem ...
>>
>> There is a "(kernel)/fs/devfs" directory, with a Makefile, base.c, and
>> util.c.  But it is NOT mentionned at all in "(kernel)/fs/Kconfig", so it
>> never shows up in "make menuconfig".
>>
>> Now I'm not skillfull enough to start messing around in the source tree,
>> but any ideas what I'm missing?
>>
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