Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Dec 2003 09:16:49 +1300 | From | Oliver Hunt <> | Subject | Re: udev sysfs docs Re: State of devfs in 2.6? |
| |
Måns Rullgård wrote:
> Andreas Jellinghaus <aj@dungeon.inka.de> writes: > > >>maybe add this to the faq? >> >>Q: devfs did load drivers when someone tried to open() a non existing >>device. will sysfs/hotplug/udev do this? >> >>A: there is no need to. > > > I never like it when the answer is "you don't want to do this". It > makes me think of a certain Redmond based company. > > >>hotplug/sysfs/udev will create devices for all hardware supported by >>the kernel and the available modules. it will do that during boot >>up, and whenever new hardware is added. so you can expect all >>devices be already present, no need for a devfs like mechanism. > > No... that's MacOS.. it does everything you want it to do... if you think otherwise, you're *wrong*, although this isn't as applicable in MacOS X...
--Oliver
PS not meant to offend MacOS users...
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |