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Bug 80149 - Discrepancies between http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=1&chap=7 and http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml
Summary: Discrepancies between http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xm...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: [OLD] Docs-user
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Handbook (show other bugs)
Hardware: AMD64 Linux
: High minor (vote)
Assignee: Gerald Normandin (RETIRED)
URL: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook...
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Reported: 2005-01-30 17:09 UTC by Gerald Normandin (RETIRED)
Modified: 2005-01-30 17:29 UTC (History)
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Description Gerald Normandin (RETIRED) 2005-01-30 17:09:29 UTC 
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=1&chap=7 states to mount devfs at boot, while http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml states not to. Apparantly with 2.6 (default kernel on amd64) we cannot mount devfs and use udev, as it breaks things. 

Fixable by removing a *

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Doc Discrepancy
Actual Results:  
User may fail to have a completely working system

Expected Results:  
Working system
Comment 1 Gerald Normandin (RETIRED) 2005-01-30 17:29:40 UTC 
Added a comment about 2.6 being the default kernel on amd64, a note about CONFIG_HOTPLUG and removed the requirement to have devfs enabled on bootup