> On Thursday 18 September 2008 07:41:12 pm Bill Nottingham wrote: > > there's an already-upstream solution > > of putting device nodes in /lib/udev/devices. Why not just use this, > > remove MAKEDEV, simplify start_udev, and boot faster? Please don't _remove_ MAKEDEV. I believe the FHS requires the existence of MAKEDEV, anyway; see: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#DEVDEVICEFILES There are a lot of reasons to manually create a device in /dev. Nothing requires that the _initial_ boot use MAKEDEV, though. If the upstream solution works and is really sound, you could use it, and leave MAKEDEV around as a "manual override" switch. Has this gotten enough testing, though? A post-freeze change in fundamental boot methods might leave systems unbootable. --- David A. Wheeler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
