From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.7-ac4 i686; Nav) Description of problem: After compiling a kernel with devfs support and the system is rebooted is complains a lot because the /sbin/devfsd daemon is missing (rpm package is missing too) it is not started by /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Compile kernel with devfs support 2. modify /boot/grub/grub.conf to include your new kernel 3. reboot and voila! Expected Results: The devfsd damon should have been started by /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit if it was there.... Additional info: Installing devfsd RPM from Redhat 7.1 solved this problem, i hope devfsd will be included in the final roswell release!
We will not be including devfsd as it has WAY too many security holes that haven't been addressed by the maintainer yet (in the at least 3 months that he has been notified of them). I might consider including the source of it in the kernel-source package though, so you can compile it with your kernel.
It looks like Richard Gooch has started fixing bugs in the devfs code, so maybe there is a chance for it to be included?