No more MAKEDEV?
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Thu Oct 16 13:45:20 UTC 2008
Harald Hoyer (harald at redhat.com) said:
> I switched from /lib/udev/devices to MAKEDEV!
>
> Complaints have been filed in bugzilla, because /lib should not contain devices.
> a
> # grep -r foo /lib
> could do harm!
loopback can be fixed (they can be allocated on demand.) I'm not sure how
grep of /dev/lp0 can cause issues.
> selinux does not like devices in /lib also.
Upstream udev supports /lib/udev/devices only, and seemed unwilling to change
from discussions with them.
Bill
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