udev lists 600+ devices!? (not using a tarball at boot)

[beissemj]

Ok. I'm using udev-058 and when I go to /dev/ I have over 600 devices listed. Now obviously I don't have that many connected to my computer. I read the Gentoo udev guide and I've been searching the forums for quite a while and I can't seem to find why this is happening.

For most of the people with this problem simply editing their

/etc/conf.d/rc

and changing

RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="no"

solved their problem. Well that certainly helped my situation; i went from 1200 devices to 600 devices but obviously it's still a problem. Any ideas?
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[beissemj]

Ok well I set gentoo=udev and devfs=nomo in my grub.conf but still no luck. also reemerged udev, hotplug, coldplug, and baselayout. perhaps i need to make some udev rules?
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[bonbons]

Maybe we could help if you listed the kind of devices you have...

I have around 700 devs, most of them are ttys and virtual consoles.

[dsd]

and probably over 50% are symlinks, hence you dont actually have 600 devices. you should post where you got your count from...
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[beissemj]

ok well is having so many devices normal?

i'd say about 500+ of them are
ptya0, ptya1, ptya2, etc
tty0, tty1, tty2, etc

and the rest are like
ram0, ram1, etc

is having that many normal? from my understanding I thought udev only detected the devices that were present so i figured it should be alot less. the count i just took from

[bonbons]

Yes, I have about 27% devices and all the rest are symlinks.

With the following code I get 200 devices and 667 symbolic links: