[ale] /dev/ttyUSB0 question
James Sumners
james at sumners.ath.cx
Wed Jul 21 18:11:46 EDT 2004
Which is what we have been saying...
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 17:58:15 -0400
Jason Day <jasonday at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 01:19:37PM -0400, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> > I was disappointed to find that Mandrake 10, though it uses a 2.6 kernel,
> > does not have devfs. Does anyone know of a distibution that does have
> > devfs?
>
> Gentoo uses devfs. However, devfs is marked as OBSOLETE in the 2.6
> kernel, which may be why Mandrake 10 doesn't use it. The kernel
> developers appear to be embracing udev instead:
>
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev_vs_devfs
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev-FAQ
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