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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
Cc: David T Hollis <dhollis@davehollis.com>,
	"J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>,
	Lista Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: udev for dummies
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 13:32:47 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031212213247.GB24643@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FD92CA4.20606@nortelnetworks.com>

On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 09:49:08PM -0500, Chris Friesen wrote:
> David T Hollis wrote:
> >On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 17:16, J.A. Magallon wrote:
> 
> >>What am I missing / misunderstanding ?
> 
> >You may be overthinking it a bit.  I just set up udev on my box and it's
> >working quite well.  It's not really intending to completely replace
> >/dev, rather it provides a dynamic device structure based on hotplugged
> >devices.
> 
> Greg can speak to this better than I, but udev is most certainly 
> intended to completely replace /dev.  The thing is that not everything 
> exports the required information in /sys just yet.

Yes, this is true.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-12 21:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-11 22:16 udev for dummies J.A. Magallon
2003-12-11 22:59 ` David T Hollis
2003-12-12  2:49   ` Chris Friesen
2003-12-12 21:32     ` Greg KH [this message]
2003-12-12  4:43   ` Bob
2003-12-12 21:31 ` Greg KH
2003-12-14 18:36   ` Martin Schlemmer

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