request advice: how stable is devfs in 2.4.0-test9?
Could anyone please send me a comment on how actually usable the devfs support in the 2.4.0 test series is at the moment?
I am currently using 2.4.0-test* as an "ordinary user" and want to try some of the 2.4 specific new features out, but this is my only system and I don't want it to be messed up so much, so I'd like to hear some comments first. Which version of devfsd/utils is needed?
Thanks,
Mirko
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Could anyone please send me a comment on how actually usable the devfs support in the 2.4.0 test series is at the moment?
Fine. I was forced to use it from 2.3.99-something and have not had any problems with it. (I lifted whole system from one disk to another and forgot to create /dev :)
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I am currently using 2.4.0-test* as an "ordinary user" and want to try some of the 2.4 specific new features out, but this is my only system and I don't want it to be messed up so much, so I'd like to hear some comments first. Which version of devfsd/utils is needed?
I have devfsd 1.3.10.
You better be sure you have following lines in devfsd.conf:
REGISTER .* MKOLDCOMPAT UNREGISTER .* RMOLDCOMPAT
You can later reconfigure most stuff to use new layout but especially X is a pain.
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I am currently using 2.4.0-test* as an "ordinary user" and want to try some of the 2.4 specific new features out, but this is my only system and I don't want it to be messed up so much, so I'd like to hear some comments first.
This is one of the things that user-mode Linux (http://user-mode-linux.sourcefo
rge.net) is for. I've been shipping kernels with devfs since devfs made it into the mainline pool.
With UML, you can boot up a virtual machine, and play with devfs all you want without any chance of messing up the host.
Jeff
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