[PLUG] udev status?

[Eric Wilhelm]

# from Carla Schroder
# on Thursday 20 July 2006 01:38 pm:

>Do all the major
>distributions use it now, or are there still some devfs holdouts?

Since "the final word" was said 2.5 years ago, I'm thinking "what's 
devfs?"  I'm pretty sure I never had it on any system (except the 
Gentoo one that didn't work right.)

  http://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev_vs_devfs

> Somewheres I read that from kernel 2.6.13 on, you get only udev.

Was it here?

  http://kerneltrap.org/node/5340

Debian's udev started conflicting with their hotplug package and that 
got me to the point where I can't switch between 2.6.9 and 2.6.(>11 or 
so) without some rather painful cherry-picking of files (vs losing 
wireless and maybe a few other pieces of hardware like the display.)

--Eric
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