From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262014AbVF0WgF (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jun 2005 18:36:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262016AbVF0WgF (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jun 2005 18:36:05 -0400 Received: from smtp110.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com ([68.142.229.95]:3453 "HELO smtp110.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262014AbVF0Wf4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jun 2005 18:35:56 -0400 From: Dmitry Torokhov To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] ndevfs - a "nano" devfs Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 17:35:50 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 Cc: Mike Bell , Greg KH References: <20050624081808.GA26174@kroah.com> <20050625234305.GA11282@kroah.com> <20050627071907.GA5433@mikebell.org> In-Reply-To: <20050627071907.GA5433@mikebell.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200506271735.50565.dtor_core@ameritech.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 27 June 2005 02:19, Mike Bell wrote: > On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 04:43:05PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > So no, I'm not going to be submitting this. But what it is, is a nice > > proof-of-concept for people who "just can't live without a in-kernel > > devfs" to show that it can be done in less than 300 lines of code, and > > only 6 hooks (2 functions in 3 different places) in the main kernel > > tree. That is managable outside of the main kernel for years, with > > almost little to no effort. > > Except that it isn't. > > The "everything in the root" model just doesn't seem to work. It's been > so long since I used linux without devfs I hadn't thought about how > things like ALSA and the input subsystem have gone beyond supporting > device nodes in a subdirectory to actually requiring device nodes to be > in a subdirectory. AFAIK there is no requirement in input subsystem that devices should be created under /dev/input. When devfs is activated they are created there by default, but that's it. -- Dmitry