Has anyone dumped udev for devfs?

[Paul Howarth]

Thomas Cameron wrote:
> I have to agree with Kevin on this.  I am really amazed at the whole 
> udev debacle.  To me it seems that we are trying to adopt a form of 
> "Plug and Play" for Linux.  While the concept is cool, I wonder if it is 
> really necessary.  What I mean is, the old method (tons of files in 
> /dev) Just Worked(TM).  If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
> 
> Now having said that, I am not a programmer so I am not sure how much 
> work it has been to keep all of those special files.

Kevin's problem appears to be with the driver support in the kernel 
though (it's a USB timeout), rather the presence or absence of a node in 
the /dev directory. Even with a good old-fashioned /dev full of entries, 
the USB support would be broken, wouldn't it - see Bug #128602?

Paul.