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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org>
Cc: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>,
	KML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: devfsd/2.6.0-test1
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 10:36:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030721143645.GA9480@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1058741336.19817.147.camel@nosferatu.lan>

On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 12:48:56AM +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 19:17, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> > > Also, read the threads on the list about udev/hotplug - apparently
> > > devfsd is going out ...
> > 
> > as long as you have memory-based /dev you need devfsd even if it is called 
> > differently.
> >
> 
> I have not looked at it myself, but as far as I have it, you do not
> mount /dev, and just need udev/hotplug/libsysfs (not sure on libsysfs).
> Currently udev still call mknod, but I think Greg said he will fix that
> in the future.

What's wrong with calling mknod?

I did say I thought about calling sys_mknod directly from udev, but
that's just a minor change.  Is that what you were referring to?

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-07-21 14:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-20 17:17 devfsd/2.6.0-test1 Andrey Borzenkov
2003-07-20 22:48 ` devfsd/2.6.0-test1 Martin Schlemmer
2003-07-21 11:09   ` devfsd/2.6.0-test1 Rusty Russell
2003-07-21 14:36   ` Greg KH [this message]
2003-07-21 14:52     ` devfsd/2.6.0-test1 Martin Schlemmer
2003-07-21 15:02       ` devfsd/2.6.0-test1 Greg KH
     [not found] <200307172145.14681.arvidjaar@mail.ru>
2003-07-18 10:49 ` devfsd/2.6.0-test1 Mark Watts
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-07-17  9:17 devfsd/2.6.0-test1 Mark Watts
2003-07-17 10:02 ` devfsd/2.6.0-test1 Thierry Vignaud
2003-07-17 11:07   ` devfsd/2.6.0-test1 Mark Watts
2003-07-17 12:10 ` devfsd/2.6.0-test1 Martin Schlemmer
2003-07-17 22:39   ` devfsd/2.6.0-test1 Bill Davidsen
2003-07-20 16:27     ` devfsd/2.6.0-test1 Martin Schlemmer
2003-07-23 21:28       ` devfsd/2.6.0-test1 bill davidsen

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