devfs provides a solution to these problems and also gives system administrators a new tool for checking which devices are available. devfs is written as a virtual filesystem driver, and it keeps ...

I've noticed that some of my modules are failing to load on boot because the associated devices "aren't there yet" because devfs hasn't created them. At least, this is what I think is happening ...

the last time I setuped devfs in debian I only enabled devfs support in the kernel config and installed the devfsd package. It worked "out of the box".

For more on how udev compares with devfs, see the on-line Resources section. The first item, run in user space, is accomplished by harnessing the fact that /sbin/hotplug generates an event for every ...