From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266194AbTLIJq2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2003 04:46:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264321AbTLIJqZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2003 04:46:25 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:24281 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266194AbTLIJpp (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2003 04:45:45 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: mru@kth.se (=?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?=) Subject: Re: udev sysfs docs Re: State of devfs in 2.6? Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 10:45:42 +0100 Message-ID: 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> <3FD577E7.9040809@nishanet.com> <1070955596.25311.19.camel@minerva> <20031209091630.GA2753@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Rational FORTRAN, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:75RNOYEyt1tJ1MbbsXSOf4jAWqw= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Greg KH writes: >> I'd be interested in a solution to this, mostly out of curiosity since >> it seems like it might be interesting, but I don't see a nice one coming >> easily. I wouldn't mind someone more clueful telling me I'm wrong, >> though. At the least, it means more people being receptive to moving >> to udev. > > Solution for a problem that is non-existant on a properly configured > system? Why? :) Apparently, there are people that want the functionality. Besides, why was it introduced in the first place, if not as a solution to some problem or other? -- Måns Rullgård mru@kth.se