Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com> skribis: > On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Frank Peters <frank.pet...@comcast.net> > wrote: > > Manually creating a /dev tree that perfectly reflects ones own system > > is rather trivial. That's how Linux used to be and that's how Linux, > > for the most part, still is. There is, or at least should be, no need > > for udev or any substitute for udev. > > If you want to create a /dev tree for a computer that never gets new > hardware connected via USB, bluetooth, or another bus, yeah, it's > pretty trivial.
What’s hard? You create nodes for those devices. If you have a lot of devices, you create more nodes. With a script, you can create enough nodes to wrap the earth a few times over. All udev does is create and destroy nodes according to an unfathomable set of rules that changes all the time.