Messages in this thread | | | From | (Måns Rullgård) | Subject | Re: devfs and udev | Date | Tue, 07 Oct 2003 23:27:37 +0200 |
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Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> writes:
>> > > What am I supposed to do, starting to use mknod again? Uggggh... >> > >> > Provide me with a kernel name to devfs name mapping file so that I can >> > create a "devfs like" udev config file for people who happen to like >> > that naming scheme. >> >> It seems that we have a bit of misunderstanding here. >> >> I just don't want to go back to /dev being actually placed on >> real, on-disk fs. >> >> I won't mind if naming scheme will change as long >> as device names start with '/dev/' and appear >> there (semi-)automagically. That's what I call devfs. >> If udev can do this, I am all for that. > > udev can do this. Is there some documentation that you read that has > suggested otherwise?
It's been my understanding that udev creates device nodes in a regular filesystem. If this is the case, things like unclean reboots will leave stale files behind. It will also not be easy to bootstrap. Correct me if am wrong.
-- Måns Rullgård mru@users.sf.net
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