[Wolves] Anyone seen this?

[Aquarius]

Old Dan spoo'd forth:
> http://www.arstechnica.com/etc/linux/love-interview-1.html
> 
> It seems with 2.6 they're working on moving hardware device management 
> into user space.  Anyone know any more than this?  Sounds way cool to 
> me.  :)

It is cool. udev rocks the bollock. I've been experimenting with it.
Robert Love and some of the Gnome guys are putting together "Project
Utopia" based on it. It's dead neat. The only issue I've found with
it is that it only recognises stuff after you've started it up, which
by definition means it won't recognise your hard drives and stuff
(since they need to be up already in order to run anything!). If you
only want it for digital cameras and the like then it's the mutt's
nuts. If you want to abandon a static /dev entirely then you have
to either boot Linux from an initramfs (hard complex stuff) or
use a script some guy wrote (and I can't find) which walks through
/sys (sysfs! it's everying /proc is supposed to be!) and creates
device nodes for you from it.

Aq.

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