udev links  ‘esmith’ asked about udev/hotplug in contrast to
FreeBSD-5’s devfs, listing these links for more info.   Posted
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links     1. Lazarus says:      I never did like udev.      It
seems to me that something like devfs is a better solution as
when you rebuild your kernel, the correct device nodes for that
kernel are automatically generated.      Not like it’s ever been
hard to run MAKEDEV, and sure thing udev would be simpler still,
but I’ve seen both MAKEDEV and udev bork things before, and I
think it would take a real brain fart on the part of a kernel
coder to make the same happen with devfs.    2. Mezz says:
Using FreeBSD 5.x for the very long time and still, I will have
to agree with you about that I like devfs better. I think it’s a
better solution, too.    3. MasterOfMagic says:      The point
of udev is to provide “persistant naming”. For example, if I
plug in my USB keydrive with udev set up correctly, it will
symlink the devic