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Subject: Re: devfs vs. udev
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On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 01:49, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 05:54:04PM +0100, Hugo Mills wrote:
> > 
> >    Surely udev needs the ability to make more than one device node or
> > symlink when a device is plugged in anyway, so I just see this as an
> > issue of writing the appropriate default configuration files.
> 
> More than one device node per device?  Why would you want that?
> 
> And sure, it's just software, it can be made to do that, if someone
> sends me a patch... :)
> 

Will udev remove the limit on the number of anonymous devices?