From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266124AbTLIUxq (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2003 15:53:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266125AbTLIUxp (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2003 15:53:45 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:47330 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266124AbTLIUxl (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2003 15:53:41 -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 21:53:37 +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> <3FD62DB1.7040205@student.canterbury.ac.nz> 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:FH1u9eWadHum1D5k/lrD9T3dY28= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. -- Måns Rullgård mru@kth.se