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Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 10:55:28 -0500
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sgi.com>
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Austin Gonyou wrote:
> 
> How easy would it be to just patch a 2.4.4 kernel and NOT use devfsd. I'm
> having too many problems to actually spend as much time as I'll have to to
> fix it. I DO want to spend the time, but I don't have the time to spend
> right now. Ideas?

To get rid of devfsd, just turn it off in the kernel config, or pass
"devfsd=nomount" on the lilo command line.

Also, please remember that 2.4.4 is not yet well tested at all...

-Eric


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