Il est peut-être important de signaler que dans le kernel 2.6, devfs est consideré comme étant obsolète.
make menuconfig:
Note that devfs has been obsoleted by udev,
<http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/>.(...)
It has been stripped down to a bare minimum and is only provided for
legacy installations that use its naming scheme which is
unfortunately different from the names normal Linux installations
use.
# devfs est déclaré obsolète dans le kernel 2.6.
Posté par petit_bibi . En réponse à la dépêche Udev atteint la maturité. Évalué à 4.
make menuconfig:
Note that devfs has been obsoleted by udev,
<http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/>.(...)
It has been stripped down to a bare minimum and is only provided for
legacy installations that use its naming scheme which is
unfortunately different from the names normal Linux installations
use.