Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 Oct 2003 13:54:13 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: devfs vs. udev |
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On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 09:43:10PM +0800, Ian Kent wrote: > On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 01:49, Greg KH wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 05:54:04PM +0100, Hugo Mills wrote: > > > > > > Surely udev needs the ability to make more than one device node or > > > symlink when a device is plugged in anyway, so I just see this as an > > > issue of writing the appropriate default configuration files. > > > > More than one device node per device? Why would you want that? > > > > And sure, it's just software, it can be made to do that, if someone > > sends me a patch... :) > > > > Will udev remove the limit on the number of anonymous devices?
udev is a userspace program, it doesn't extend the capability of the kernel in any manner. If the kernel has such a limit, there's nothing that udev can do about it.
thanks,
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