From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262063AbTLIWqX (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2003 17:46:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262118AbTLIWqX (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2003 17:46:23 -0500 Received: from cantva.canterbury.ac.nz ([132.181.2.27]:26124 "EHLO cantva.canterbury.ac.nz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262063AbTLIWqV (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2003 17:46:21 -0500 Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 11:46:17 +1300 From: Oliver Hunt Subject: Re: udev sysfs docs Re: State of devfs in 2.6? In-reply-to: To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-id: <3FD650B9.7090006@student.canterbury.ac.nz> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030727 Thunderbird/0.1 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> <3FD577E7.9040809@nishanet.com> <3FD62DB1.7040205@student.canterbury.ac.nz> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Måns Rullgård wrote: > Oliver Hunt writes: > > >>Måns Rullgård wrote: >> >> >>>Andreas Jellinghaus writes: >>> >>> >>>>maybe add this to the faq? >>>> >>>>Q: devfs did load drivers when someone tried to open() a non existing >>>>device. will sysfs/hotplug/udev do this? >>>> >>>>A: there is no need to. >>> >>>I never like it when the answer is "you don't want to do this". It >>>makes me think of a certain Redmond based company. >>> >> >>No... that's MacOS.. it does everything you want it to do... if you >>think otherwise, you're *wrong*, > > > Quite true, I've never been able to use the old MacOS for more than a > few minutes without a total system crash, only fixable by pulling the > plug. MacOS is right, I don't want to use it, and it didn't let me. > Perfect. > > >>although this isn't as applicable in MacOS X... > > > It didn't crash, but it made me log out very quickly. > I'm currently doing development under macos x, and have come to the conclusion that macos does some things well, others, not so well... There's certainly a lot that can be learned from it (sometimes we can learn what not to do -- The dock would be a good example of this :) ) --Oliver