udev and devfs - The final word

That would be ideal. I'm sure you will like the 'portage' system as much as we (the gentoo hordes) do.

Note that the portage system already includes 'hotplug' and 'udev' but possibly lagging behind a bit: hotplug-20030805-r3 and udev-011.

I have installed them both but just have not been able to get udev working yet -- I don't yet understand the problems well enough to tell you why, unfortutately. (udev is still marked 'experimental' so I'm probably omitting important steps somewhere.)

If you could get udev working in gentoo you would become an instant hero rather than the target of nasty emails. Think of how great that would be for your New Year! We would become the wind beneath your wings instead of the rotten tomatoes in your mailbox ;0)

Afiak, we are current on udev :D As for hotplug, I will have to check - I see the latest usb patches cause usb.agent to complain about "09" not valid token or such, but I have not looked into it yet.

Well, ideally you need baselayout-1.8.6.12-r3 as well ... But if you do have issues, try to bother me first, as it could be something I did or did not do ;)

Hmm, It works fine here? With sysfs patches from Greg (not yet into official linux bk), I only had to run alsa's script to create device nodes, and create /dev/{core,stdin,stdout,stderr} - the rest udev creates - although, yes we do have the ramdisk/tarball feature to save permissions/additions.

But once again, drop me a mail first with versions of udev, baselayout, kernel, hotplug, etc, if you have latest unstable baselaout and still cannot get it working - it is a Gentoo issue after all (as well as the fact that I was under the impression that it should _just_work_ if you have latest everything unstable =) ...

Thanks,

Martin Schlemmer

Err, correction - I just saw 012 is out =p

Martin Schlemmer