der Mouse wrote:
Linux had a devfs and [dropped] it. Now it has udevd(8). Most likely the penguins had a reason for this.Surely there are mailing list messages or something that outline that reason? (Not that I have any idea where they'd be, but don't we have at least a few people with feet in both camps?)
This page has links to various bits about the move from devfs to udev. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev.html --Dan