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Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 11:10:41 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Hugo Mills <hugo-lkml@carfax.org.uk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: devfs vs. udev
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On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 06:58:17PM +0100, Hugo Mills wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 10:49:28AM -0700, 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?
> 
>    OK, more than one actual node per device (i.e. per major:minor
> pair) may not necessarily be required, but in devfs there are, for
> example device nodes created in /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/device0/lun0/...
> etc, and links to those device nodes created in /dev/discs/disc0/...
> It can occasionally be useful to have the two distinct namespaces
> available.

Yes, symlinks are on the TODO list, as lots of people want them
/dev/cdrom, /dev/pilot, etc.

thanks,

greg k-h