From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263267AbTLIHCk (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2003 02:02:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263281AbTLIHCk (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2003 02:02:40 -0500 Received: from k-kdom.nishanet.com ([65.125.12.2]:33540 "EHLO mail2k.k-kdom.nishanet.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263267AbTLIHCh (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2003 02:02:37 -0500 Message-ID: <3FD577E7.9040809@nishanet.com> Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 02:21:11 -0500 From: Bob User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031014 Thunderbird/0.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel Subject: Re: udev sysfs docs Re: State of devfs in 2.6? 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> In-Reply-To: <20031209061728.28bfaf0f.witukind@nsbm.kicks-ass.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Witukind wrote: >On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 15:37:55 -0800 >Greg KH wrote: > > > >>On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 02:09:47PM -0500, Bob wrote: >> >> >>>William Lee Irwin III wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 03:36:26PM +0000, Andrew Walrond wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>Whats the general feeling about devfs now? I remember Christoph >>>>> >>>>> >>>>and >others making some nasty remarks about it 6months ago or so, >>>>but later >noted christoph doing some slashing and burning thereof. >>>> >>>> >>>>>Is it 'nice' yet? >>>>>Andrew Walrond >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>I would say it's deprecated at the very least. sysfs and udev are >>>>supposed to provide equivalent functionality, albeit by a somewhat >>>>different mechanism. >>>> >>>> > >>>From the udev FAQ: > >Q: But udev will not automatically load a driver if a /dev node is opened > when it is not present like devfs will do. >A: If you really require this functionality, then use devfs. It is still > present in the kernel. > >Will it have this 'equivalent functionality' some day? > > > > Shouldn't hotplug handle it? hotplug and udev and sysfsutils are together at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug so hotplug is part of the sysfs and udev program. -Bob D