From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266161AbTLIJA5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2003 04:00:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266162AbTLIJA5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2003 04:00:57 -0500 Received: from AGrenoble-101-1-3-30.w193-253.abo.wanadoo.fr ([193.253.251.30]:65508 "EHLO awak") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266161AbTLIJAz convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2003 04:00:55 -0500 Subject: Re: udev sysfs docs Re: State of devfs in 2.6? From: Xavier Bestel To: Greg KH Cc: Witukind , recbo@nishanet.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20031209075619.GA1698@kroah.com> References: <200312081536.26022.andrew@walrond.org> <20031208154256.GV19856@holomorphy.com> <3FD4CC7B.8050107@nishanet.com> <20031208233755.GC31370@kroah.com> <20031209061728.28bfaf0f.witukind@nsbm.kicks-ass.org> <20031209075619.GA1698@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Message-Id: <1070960433.869.77.camel@nomade> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 10:00:34 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Le mar 09/12/2003 à 08:56, Greg KH a écrit : > A: That is correct. If you really require this functionality, then > use devfs. There is no way that udev can support this, and it > never will. That's something I don't understand: I thought that with a well configured hotplug+udev system, you'll never have to worry about loading drivers on device-node open() because all drivers should be auto-loaded and all device-nodes should be auto-created. Am I wrong ? Xav