devfs

[ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY]

On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 12:43 -0400, Matt Patterson wrote:
> I have been having stability issues with my dual athlon system, so I 
> have started compiling my own kernels. I built a 2.6.10 kernel which 
> appears stable, and the only problem I can see is that on bootup it 
> gives an error about devfs not being supported by kernel. Do I lose 
> anything by not enabling this feature???
> 
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
No.  "devfs" was a hack to start with, and it's disadvantages  are
greater than it's advantages.  And, the last and most important thing,
"udev" is much better alternative (actually, "udev" is more than *just*
an alternative).

Ziyad.