After several years of `looking at' devfs, I've finally bitten the bullet and
I'm running Redhat 7.0.91 with Linux 2.4.2 with devfs enabled.
It mostly works, but there are a few remaining problems.
I've read http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/docs/devfs.html and am none
the wiser. I'm not sure what `man devfsd' means by "old compatibility entries"
and "new compatibility entries". Are there other docs out there ? Are there
any sample config files I can look at ?
I was assuming that there would be something I could put in devfsd.conf to say
`create a link from /dev/mouse to ttys/0' (I know some people don't like
/dev/mouse, but we use it!), rather than having use the tarball approach. Can
this be done ?
The latest problem is that in the old world, when a user tried to open
/dev/audio, kmod loaded the driver and it all worked.
Now there is no /dev/audio to trigger kmod, and just attempting to open the
name /dev/audio doesn't work. Manually doing a modprobe works and causes
/dev/audio to appear, but with the wrong modes -- likewise /dev/cdroms/ is
drw------- and even the `owner' can't access /dev/cdrom
How should it all work ?
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