On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org> wrote:
Aaron Griffin schrieb:
I have a feeling the new "five second boot" article and resulting competitions may revive MAKEDEV. However, I think the script would be much better off in [unsupported] where the people playing with this stuff have more access to it.
Well, if you really want all the devices for your computer, you can run udev once and just copy the /dev dir.
I don't get those OMGIBOOTFASTER things. Besides, it is possible that in the future major/minor numbers will be dynamically assigned by the kernel, this is already possible with alsa so you can support a large number of sound cards. udev does its job fine, we don't need to support deprecated static /dev methods.
Agreed. Removing. I will move it to unsupported