From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264598AbTLKKPO (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Dec 2003 05:15:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264855AbTLKKPO (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Dec 2003 05:15:14 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:50316 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264598AbTLKKPK (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Dec 2003 05:15:10 -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: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 11:15:07 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1070963757.869.86.camel@nomade> <20031209183001.GA9496@kroah.com> <1071039765.1790.94.camel@nomade> <20031210210614.625ccfcc.witukind@nsbm.kicks-ass.org> <1071134837.1789.123.camel@nomade> 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:AFOwseDiF4qnSnyVZD6AAE/hhhY= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Xavier Bestel writes: > Le mer 10/12/2003 à 21:06, Witukind a écrit : >> On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 08:02:46 +0100 >> Xavier Bestel wrote: >> > Come on ... the stock kernel from your distribution will do the >> > modprobe for you when you access the floppy, I'm sure you're skilled >> > enough to configure your own kernel to do the same. >> > And if you don't want to recompile, just chmod +s modprobe - on your >> > small machine which needs to save 60k, I bet you're the only user. Or >> > use sudo. >> > >> > Xav >> >> I was expecting this kind of reply. Like "if you have an older hardware you >> can fuck off". > > Wow ... how can you understand this in my text ? Because I'm guessing he > is the only user on his machine ? This has nothing to do with small > machines, but with system configuration: load on-demand may be done > without devfs. It certainly can be done without devfs. I was objecting to the udev way of thinking that all drivers are always loaded. If you want to use udev and on-demand loading, you need to do some tweaking. > Well, I wish do apologize to Måns if he thought I was ridiculing his > hardware. Just take out the last sentence with "modprobe" if it bothers > you. Well, my hardware is as good as any. -- Måns Rullgård mru@kth.se