From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262041AbTLIKZe (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2003 05:25:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262111AbTLIKZe (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2003 05:25:34 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:62425 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262041AbTLIKZ3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2003 05:25:29 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: mru@kth.se (=?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?=) Subject: Re: udev sysfs docs Re: State of devfs in 2.6? Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 11:25:26 +0100 Message-ID: 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Rational FORTRAN, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:4c1NCZxVv6nzlzhLA42n9JtmYog= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. > hotplug/sysfs/udev will create devices for all hardware supported by > the kernel and the available modules. it will do that during boot > up, and whenever new hardware is added. so you can expect all > devices be already present, no need for a devfs like mechanism. -- Måns Rullgård mru@kth.se