Traditionally in a UNIX-style operating system, processes access devices via the /dev directory. Within this directory are hundreds of device nodes allocated as either block or character devices, each ...

i using a 2.4.7 from woody and i just set up devfs.heres my set-up:<BR>in grub.. 'kernel (hd0,3)/vmlinuz devfs=mount'<BR>in rcS... <BR>'mount --bind /dev /dev-state' #copied it from the docs<BR>'mount ...

udev can not be described fully in this short article. The full release of udev is available at www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug. It also has been ...

I've noticed that some of my modules are failing to load on boot because the associated devices "aren't there yet" because devfs hasn't created them. At least, this is what I think is happening. For ...