[Gllug] Getting VMware to cohabit with devfs

[Matthew King]

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Ian Northeast wrote:
| Devfs is still in 2.6 but is deprecated in favour of udev. So it is
| "being dropped". But it has not been, yet.

Indeed.

| Personally I never liked it but that's just MHO. IMHO it just adds
| complexity without contributing anything of value. And, as John noted,
| doesn't play nicely with VMware.

I liked the fact that it made devicenames more expressive, but really
thatwas all it did. udev claims to do much more than that.

| Should I mention how to spell "wean"? (Ducks)

No, because I was going to be pernickety about the difference between
being and been but you beat me to it so let's leave it at that :-)

Matthew

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