udev, was: Re: File system erase the softsynth device

[Gregory Nowak <greg@romuald.net.eu.org>]

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I personally don't like it. When I decided to try it one time, most of
my hardware was non-functional after boot, until I loaded the modules
by hand, upon which the hardware was functional, and /dev was
populated. Since I prefer to have functioning hardware after boot,
without loading modules for everything by hand, rather then having a
customized /dev directory, I went back to using hotplug under debian
testing, currently running linux 2.6.18, and have been happily doing
so ever since. I must admit however, that when I tried it, I didn't
have the time to read up on it, and was expecting udev to work out of
the box, just as hotplug has for me. That's just my opinion, based on
my quick and undetailed experience, so take it for what it's worth.

Greg


On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 06:45:07AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
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> This might be a dumb off-topic question but what can you tell me about
> udev? I've heard of it but haven't done anything with it around here.
> When upgrading to Slackware 11.0, they included some notes about major
> changes with upgrading it.  I see on one of my boxes that udev as a
> package is installed but the startup script is not marked for execution;
> so it must be installed but nopt running rightnow.  Is it a good thing
> to use? I'm currently on kernel 2.6.16.12 but plan to move up to 2.6.18
> when I get around to it:).
> 

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