[PLUG] udev status?

Jason R. Martin nsxfreddy at gmail.com
Fri Jul 21 04:51:30 UTC 2006


On 7/20/06, alan <alan at clueserver.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Carla Schroder wrote:
>
> > Anyone know the general status of udev these days? Do all the major
> > distributions use it now, or are there still some devfs holdouts? Somewheres
> > I read that from kernel 2.6.13 on, you get only udev. But anymore I'm a
> > little paranoid about the many ways individual distributions can bork I mean
> > customize their offerings...
>
> Devfs is dead, dead, dead.  It has not seen an update in over a year.  The
> only distro that used it to any extent was Mandrake and it was buggy as
> hell.  The kernel maintainers are planning on removing it from the kernel
> as soon as they can, if not sooner.  (Greg KH has been trying to kill it
> for a while now.)

And was finally successful *very* recently.

http://www.kroah.com/log/2006/06/29/#2006_06_29

> I am not certain if udev or sysfs is the "one true way" at this point.

They are complimentary.  udev is userspace, so it uses sysfs to get
information about the system state when it is signaled by
/sbin/hotplug.

Jason



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