From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263573AbTLIJLC (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2003 04:11:02 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266167AbTLIJLB (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2003 04:11:01 -0500 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([65.200.24.183]:736 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263573AbTLIJKz (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2003 04:10:55 -0500 Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 01:08:15 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Xavier Bestel Cc: Witukind , recbo@nishanet.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: udev sysfs docs Re: State of devfs in 2.6? Message-ID: <20031209090815.GA2681@kroah.com> 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> <20031209075619.GA1698@kroah.com> <1070960433.869.77.camel@nomade> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1070960433.869.77.camel@nomade> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 10:00:34AM +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote: > Le mar 09/12/2003 à 08:56, Greg KH a écrit : > > A: That is correct. If you really require this functionality, then > > use devfs. There is no way that udev can support this, and it > > never will. > > That's something I don't understand: I thought that with a well > configured hotplug+udev system, you'll never have to worry about loading > drivers on device-node open() because all drivers should be auto-loaded > and all device-nodes should be auto-created. > > Am I wrong ? No, you are correct. That's why I'm not really worried about this, and I don't think anyone else should be either. thanks, greg k-h